Overview
- Payson, Utah investigators determined the mother violated a court-ordered custody agreement and reported the children missing over a week earlier.
- Payson officers used Automated License Plate Reader data to spot the vehicle entering Hermosa Beach on Oct. 15 and alerted local police.
- Hermosa Beach officers located the vehicle in a residential area and found the mother and her children living inside with two cats and a dog.
- Police arrested the mother on an active felony warrant for parental kidnapping and safely removed the two children.
- Paramedics evaluated the children, found them in good health, and they were reunited with their father as officials withheld further identifying details during the ongoing investigation.