OREGON CITY, Ore. – Police have found a 13-year-old girl after she was reportedly abducted Tuesday night in Washington state, triggering an Amber Alert.
In a brief statement released Wednesday morning, the Clackamas County sheriff’s office said the girl, Rufina Cortes-Sanchez, appeared to be unharmed. She was found in rural Clackamas County.
The man who allegedly abducted her, Gabriel Flores-Lopes, 23, was in police custody, deputies said. Flores-Lopes once lived with the girl’s family, said Mark Clemens, a spokesman for the Washington State Emergency Management Division in Olympia.
Flores-Lopes had called associates in Molalla, and police used information from that call to track him to a Clackamas County address, said Deputy Angela Brandenburg, sheriff’s spokeswoman.
Amber Alerts are bulletins, distributed through radio and television broadcasts and electronic highway signs, on kidnapped children and their abductors. They are named after Amber Hagerman, a 9-year-old girl abducted and later found murdered in Texas.
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