(This article comes courtesy of MissouriNet.)
A five-year-old girl reported missing on Monday and triggering an Amber Alert in St. Louis County was a hoax.
St. Louis County police searched for hours Monday after a Jeep was stolen in Affton with the girl reportedly alone inside. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports the Jeep’s owner made up the child, providing a name and detailed description, but had no evidence the girl existed.
Law enforcement plans to ask prosecutors to charge the woman and her roommate with filing a false police report.
Original story:
An Amber Alert has been issued for a missing girl from Affton in St. Louis County.
St. Louis TV station KTVI identifies the missing girl as Aleise Dawson, aged five. She was sitting in an unattended Jeep Renegade when it was stolen just before 8:00 a.m. Monday. The Jeep was found abandoned at an apartment complex a few blocks away, but the girl was not inside. The girl’s guardian reportedly left her inside the Jeep to run back into a different apartment building, but the vehicle and the girl were both gone when the guardian went back outside.
Aleise is a black female, two feet and six inches tall, and weighs 60 pounds. She has black hair with four pony tails and brown eyes. She was wearing a pink shirt and blue shorts.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the search has been hampered because the guardian did not have a photo of Aleise. The guardian has just recently gained custody of the girl, according to the Post-Dispatch.
It’s possible that the suspect may be on foot, and there is a wooded area and railroad tracks near the apartment complex where the Jeep was found.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Missouri State Highway Patrol or the St. Louis County Police Department.
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