Amber Alert: Four Year Old Kidnapped

[Clint]

Amber Alert: Four Year Old Kidnapped

Police in North Tonawanda are searching for a four-year-old girl who was snatched from her home on Tremont Street. An Amber Alert has been issued.

It happened around 8pm.

Serenity Platts is a white female, about three feet tall and weighs about 32 pounds. She has blond hair. She was wearing a long-sleeved pink shirt, with Winnie the Pooh and red sweat pants with a gray stripe.

Police believe she was taken by 29-year-old David Grover. He is a white male, about 5'10", 230 pounds, with blond hair and hazel eyes. He could be driving a 2003, gray Acura with license plate number: DLL 5964.

If anyone has any information on Serenity's whereabouts, please call North Tonawanda Police 716-692-4111

[kirynn]

God speed that the little angel is home soon!! Prayers for safe return home.

[greenhead]

Clint, any updates? Did they find this little girl? Thoughts and prayers are with the family.

[phantasm]

Perp heard the amber alert, dropped the girl off 2 blocks from her home, and is in custody.

Reread the thread, and I'm not sure. The amber alert I'm talking about occured in Texas. Perp shown on TV was m/b.

[StationM]

Abducted 4-year-old found

A 4-year-old North Tonawanda girl was found early this morning after a Town of Tonawanda man allegedly abducted her from her Tremont Street home Monday night.

David Grover, 29, was seen in his gray 2003 Acura dropping the child, Serenity Platts, off onto Tremont Street after a tense four-hour search by officers, family members and neighbors. A North Tonawanda police officer scooped up Platts and returned her to her mother. Patrol chased Grover

Mike Lauzau, a neighbor, said the car pulled up right outside his window.

“All of sudden she got thrown out of the car,” she said. “It was unbelievable.”

Grover, a former friend of the child’s mother, allegedly took Serenity from her home around 8 p.m. Monday while her mother was at work, according to North Tonawanda police. The child was being watched by her grandmother when Grover allegedly entered the home and asked to use the bathroom.

Ashley Hejmanowski, Platts cousin, said hearing Platts’ voice say her nickname after a terrifying four hours was the most amazing feeling.

“All of a sudden, I hear ‘Hi Mimi!’ ” she said. “Oh my God, that was the best thing ever.”

As Platts was reunited with her family, police embarked on a chase after Grover. He was apprehended in Amherst after fleeing through the city and town of Tonawanda, said Capt. Roger Zgolak.

“He knew we were looking for him,” Zgolak said. “He knew the heat was on.”

As of press time, Grover had not been charged.

Additional police were called in Monday night to assist with the search. Neighbors were out with flashlights well into the night, searching for the girl.

Although police at the scene could not confirm Platts was wearing different clothes than the ones in which she was allegedly abducted, Lauzau said he was sure.

“She had a princess outfit on when she came back,” he said. “It was the first thing my wife noticed.”

When Platts was allegedly abducted earlier in the evening, she was reportedly wearing a pink shirt and red pants.

[Cris1102]

Thank God the little girl is home and safe!!

I shrug to think why and how her clothes were changed.

I can only imagine as an officer taking that bastard into custody the things I would want to do to him but couldn't!!!!! :mad:


But again .. THANK GOD she is home safe with her mother!!