Amber Alert cancelled as Alberta baby found
Last Updated: Tuesday, April 7, 2009 | 7:34 PM MT
CBC News
Police have cancelled an Amber Alert after recovering a baby boy who had been taken Tuesday along with a black pickup truck from Sherwood Park, just east of Edmonton.
Edmonton police located the missing 5½-month-old boy in the abandoned truck in Edmonton around 6:05 p.m. MT, RCMP said.
The baby was examined by paramedics and appeared to be unharmed, RCMP said in a news release.
The truck, with the baby inside, had been in the Westboro Elementary School parking lot in Sherwood Park when it was taken by an unknown male at around 3:25 p.m. MT, police said.
Police launched a search for a male, believed to be in his teens, who was seen driving the pickup.
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