Amber Alert in progress!! Happy Update!!

[ennazus]

http://codeamber.org/lightfoot/

Amber Alert
Issued Tuesday October 8th, 10:45 PM CDT.

The Elko Nevada Department of Public Safety has issued an Amber Alert for a missing 14-year-old girl who was last seen in Austin, Texas and is believed to have been abducted Saturday in Elko, Nev.

Nicole Lightfoot Hellman is described as Anglo, 4 feet, 10 inches tall, weighing 75 pounds, with blonde hair and hazel eyes. She has braces on her teeth. She was last seen wearing a pale pink, ribbed turtleneck, flared denim jeans and white Nike tennis shoes with a green swoosh.

She may be with Lois Renae Lightfoot, 32. She is 5 feet, 6 inches tall, 115 pounds, with dyed blonde hair and brown eyes. She may be accompanied by Todd Westmoreland, 37. He is 6 feet tall, 183 pounds with brown hair, green eyes and a moustache.

Authorities are looking for a white 1999 Chevrolet Z-71 with Texas license plate 2JVL01.

Anyone with information should call the Elko Nevada Police Department at (775) 777-7300.

 

[JAP]

Thanks! Great job in posting this here. I think every bit of information that gets out to the public regarding abductions is great!

I hope the police can turn up some leads.

 

[Dan Murphy]

Thanks, ennazus, for getting the alert out here. More exposure does help.

 

[danacara]

Is this a parental kidnapping? I thought Amber Alert didn't do those.

 

[Dan Murphy]

Thanks, ennazus, for getting the alert out here. More exposure does help.

 

[newmousecateer]

Thanks!

 

[ennazus]

Less than a day after the state activated Austin's first Amber Alert, the missing teen has been found safe.

The Texas DPS located 14-year-old Nicole Hellman who is also known as Nikki Lightfoot Wednesday afternoon on Interstate Highway 37.

They also arrested her biological mom and a man. The case had Austin drivers on alert through the night and into Wednesday.

"It's a big deal. We want it to be a big deal. When we put it out, we want people to say, 'Oh no we need to keep an eye out for this," Mange said.

That's exactly what Austin drivers have been doing since the state activated the area's first Amber Alert.

"I noticed the signs that said kidnapped child," Austin driver Desirre McClurg said, "I immediately started looking' around for a Chevy truck looking."

Looking for the truck police officers in Elko, Nevada believe could lead law enforcement to the missing Nevada teen.

"Alerts have gone out. We're just not quite sure if they were appropriate in this circumstance," Mange said.

Worries for validity of the alert and the safety of the child are confirmed on Elko's Web site where officers caution that the man she could be with is armed and dangerous.

"It has to be believed that this child is in immediate physical danger and that's what the Elko police department told us when they contacted us last night," Mange said.