NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — An AMBER Alert has been canceled after a missing 9-year-old Newport News girl police said was abducted by her mother was found safe early Sunday, according to authorities.
Brielle Alexis Maree Siler, who was last seen around 10 a.m. Saturday leaving a business at 12877 Jefferson Avenue, was "believed to be in extreme danger," Virginia State Police previously said.
"[She was] found safe and unharmed in Georgia and will be reunited with her family," police posted on social media at 1:30 a.m. Sunday.
The girl's mother, 38-year-old Bethany Renae Dawn Gould, will be extradited to Virginia, officials said. She will be charged with misdemeanor abduction and an emergency protective order, Newport News Police saidSaturday evening.
Police had said that Gould was likely driving a gray 2005 Mercury Mariner SUV with Tennessee plates 978BJSC.
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