Officers have located a missing 4-year-old from Florida and her alleged kidnapper in Memphis.
Officials with the Memphis Police Department said the vehicle of 31-year-old West Hogs was spotted and pulled over around noon. Rebecca Lewis was found safe, while Hogs was taken into custody.
WREG reports the two were located near Walnut Grove and Interstate 240.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation issued a statewide Amber Alert after Hogs and Rebecca were seen at a Daily's convenience store on Antioch Pike at Interstate 24.
The two were reportedly captured on surveillance video inside the store at 2:30 a.m.
Authorities said Hogs, a longtime family friend, took Rebecca from her home Saturday morning. A 16-year-old sister said she saw her sleeping about 9 a.m. but when she woke up again 45 minutes later, she was gone.
They were seen on surveillance video at a McDonald's on Saturday morning.
The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said it received a "credible report" of a sighting of the two on Sunday night.
The Polk County Sheriff's Office in Florida said a park ranger in Campbell County, Tennessee, reported seeing a man and child matching the description of Hogs and Rebecca at 11 p.m. Sunday.
The pair was spotted at a gas station in Forsythe, Georgia, on Saturday evening in a car with a stolen Alabama license plate.
According to the TBI, Hogs had active warrants out for kidnapping in Polk County, Florida and Auto Theft from Phenix City, Alabama.
Five states, including Tennessee, issued Amber Alerts.
The TBI has released the following statement, in part:
"We are confident we have done everything possible – within the bounds of our established policies and practices – to assist authorities in Florida, given the information available to us throughout this event. We remain in constant contact with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and stand prepared to assist in any way as this ongoing search effort continues."
A spokesperson with the TBI later released the following statement to clarify any miscommunication that may have happened:
The issuance of an AMBER Alert is a well-planned and calculated strategy conducted at the state level. Since there is not a national AMBER Alert, every state has a different set of standards and processes when determining whether to issue an AMBER Alert. Sometimes, the implications of these processes may not be understood by local level jurisdictions where these type cases are not routinely experienced. Our intention is to reserve AMBER Alerts for verified sightings and specific, actionable information that might result in the successful recovery of missing children determined to be in imminent danger. Here in Tennessee, when we issue an AMBER Alert for other states, they have met our criteria.
