CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — An Amber Alert issued for a Honduran mother and her two daughters reportedly taken from Missouri was the result of a false report, the St. Charles County Police Department reported Wednesday.
The kidnapping report was issued after a man telling police he was Yajayra Molina's boyfriend said she had called someone who picked her up after a fight with someone in a mobile home at around 6 p.m. Sunday. Officers said he also reported that she had been forcibly separated from her daughters.
After Corpus Christi-based FBI agents, Corpus Christi Police Department officers and US Marshals found the woman and her two girls together and unharmed near Agnes and Cheyenne streets on the city's West Side on Monday, they were questioned and it was "determined the initial report of abduction was exaggerated," states a Facebook post from the St. Charles County Police Department.
Officials state that charges could be forthcoming relating to the false report.
St. Charles County Police Department Public Information Officer Cpl. Barry Bayles told 3NEWS on Monday that the Amber Alert issued Monday was done out of an abundance of caution.
Our sister station KSDK in St. Louis looked into whether this Amber Alert met proper protocols Tuesday.
He said the people who reported the incident are primarily Spanish speakers, and said the language barrier had made it difficult for officers to understand precisely what had happened, but that the department was investigating in the case an abduction had taken place.
Working with both a friend of Molina's and the man claiming to be her boyfriend, police were able to track the family as they made their way to Texas and eventually to Corpus Christi.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol told KSDK that Molina and her daughters were found with the children's father, who was already in Corpus Christi.