Body Of 5-Year-Old Minnesota Girl Found After Amber Alert
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP/KDKA) - Authorities have found the body of a 5-year-old Minnesota girl just hours after they had issued an Amber Alert saying she had been abducted by a family friend.
The body of Alayna Jeanne Ertl was found in Cass County, about 200 miles north of Minneapolis. The suspect in her disappearance, family friend Zachary Anderson, 26, has been arrested along with a vehicle, police say.
They say Anderson was staying overnight at the girl's home. The girl's mother discovered them gone at 8 a.m. The girl was from Watkins, about 75 miles west of Minneapolis.
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According to CBS Minneapolis, police found the girl by tracking her father's cell phone, which was located inside a stolen truck.
Police reportedly noted that Anderson was not believed to have a criminal history of sex offender behavior.
No other details were immediately available.
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