1-year-old found safe after Amber Alert issued for North Carolina abduction, cops say
A 1-year-old boy has been found safe after he was abducted in North Carolina, officials said.
An Amber Alert is canceled after officials on Thursday night said the child had gone missing, the N.C. Department of Public Safety said in a news release.
Deputies in Person County — north of Durham and Orange counties — were reportedly involved in the search for the boy, identified as Gabriel Newman.
Officials on Friday afternoon didn’t share how the boy was found but said he went missing after he was seen with Gregory Wendell Newman, who is about 6 feet tall, weighs 190 pounds and has brown eyes and black hair.
“Gregory was last seen wearing a white shirt with red fire flames on the shirt and light jeans with patches,” the N.C. Department of Public Safety said. “Gregory also has long dreads, a tattoo of a dollar sign on the right eye, love and hate (on) the right and left hands, and the letter G on the right arm.”
He and the child reportedly were spotted in a black Volkswagen Passat with North Carolina license plate TDL8320. At the time, the black car was going heading toward Danville, Virginia, as it went north on N.C. Highway 57, officials said.
Officials in a news release didn’t share the relationship between Gregory Newman and the missing child. Anyone with information is asked to call 911 or 336-597-0500.
This story was originally published July 2, 2021 at 8:29 AM with the headline "1-year-old found safe after Amber Alert issued for North Carolina abduction, cops say."
