BATON ROUGE — An AMBER Alert was cancelled less than an hour after it was issued after an abducted one-year-old boy was found safe.
The alert was sent around 8:45 a.m. The suspect in the abduction is an unidentified Black male wearing black jeans, a black hoodie and brown boots.
According to officials, the boy was abducted around 7 a.m. when a truck was stolen from the In A Flash gas station along Airline Highway. Louisiana State Police said that the suspect, who is believed to be armed, reportedly stole the mother’s vehicle from a local gas station and fled with the child in the backseat.
Authorities are searching for a gray 2013 Toyota Tundra with a Louisiana license plate “C372710.”
Anyone with any additional information is asked to call 911.