(St. George, UT) — Southern Utah and the rest of the state will be undergoing a test of the Amber Alert system this week. The Department of Public Safety said the statewide test will take place on Thursday to make sure Utah’s system upgrades are working and are in line […]
(Layton, UT) — A Layton mother is reuniting with her son after an alleged kidnapping. Thirteen-year-old Evan McConney was found safe in Nebraska on Wednesday after police issued an AMBER Alert on Tuesday. His mother told she drove nearly 800 miles to pick up her son after the scary incident. […]
(Grand Island, NE) — A Utah boy who was the subject of an AMBER Alert was found safe in Nebraska yesterday. The alert was issued Tuesday for 13-year-old Evan McConney of Layton. Police in Grand Island, Nebraska arrested 26-year-old Tadashi Kojima of Arizona after officers responded to a report of […]
(Layton, UT) — Utah law enforcement is asking for help to locate a boy from Layton. An AMBER Alert was issued last night for 13-year-old Evan McConney. Investigators say the boy left his home to meet with Aaron Zemen, a 26-year-old from Arizona that McConney met through the internet. Law […]
(South Salt Lake, UT) — Two women at the center of an AMBER Alert in South Salt Lake are in custody. Police say four children taken by Yaneli Murillo and Maria Alvarez were found unharmed yesterday afternoon at a house in West Valley City. Officers say Murillo and her mother […]
(Salt Lake City, UT) — An AMBER Alert has been issued for three Utah children who may have been taken to South Dakota by their mother. Police say the three children were last seen in Salt Lake City with Conchita Leona Peralta. Peralta had been ordered to surrender custody of […]
(Davis County, UT) — State Senator Todd Weiler feels AMBER Alerts are being used too often. He said he thinks they are very powerful but people are losing patience. His remarks were made after a non-custodial mom was accused of taking her four daughters and being found near San Diego, […]
(Green River, UT) — A 13-year-old Colorado girl is safe after being found in Utah Wednesday. Police in Aurora, Colorado had issued an AMBER Alert for the girl Tuesday, saying she may have been kidnapped or lured from her home. Troopers with the Utah Highway Patrol spotted the suspect’s vehicle […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Department of Public Safety announced Sunday that it will stop texting Amber Alerts to cellphones after an alert was sent that did not have the required information. The Salt Lake Tribune reported that the alert sent Sunday was the third one that lacked […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A 60-year-old man and a boy he’s suspected of kidnapping from Colorado were found near a southern Utah lake where they had been walking naked after asking for food and water from campers. Garfield County sheriff’s spokeswoman Denise Dastrup said David Glenn Freeman and the […]
