Amber Alert canceled after mother turns herself in to Massachusetts police

The seek for two lacking youngsters got here to an in depth throughout state strains roughly an hour and a half after an Amber Alert was issued Tuesday.

The Amber Alert issued by Maine State Police at 3:44 p.m. Tuesday was canceled at 5:11 p.m. when the mom of two younger youngsters turned herself in to Woburn police, officers mentioned. The mom is in custody and the kids are secure, based on Maine State Police.

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Officers declare Alexandra Vincent, 27, took her two youngsters, ages 8 and 6, on Monday, from their house in Saco, Maine.

In response to WMTW Information, Vincent referred to as Saco police after studying of the Amber Alert, who instructed her to go to the closest police station to show herself in.

Vincent took her youngsters earlier than Maine’s Division of Well being and Human Providers may take away them from the house, officers instructed the Boston Globe. Officers additionally instructed the newspaper the Amber Alert was issued after studying that they had left Maine.

The kids’s father later picked them up from the police station, the Globe reported.

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