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Amber alert canceled after boy, suspects found in Yakima area

Top left: Manuel C. Mendoza. Bottom left: Jessica Mendoza.  

Right: MISSING CHILD: Leonnel Barajas is 2 feet tall, 45 pounds with blond hair and green eyes. He was wearing a maroon shirt with gray sleeves with red and blue checkered pants.

 

YAKIMA, Wash. — An Amber Alert issued for a 19-month-old has been canceled after the boy and the two suspects were found in the Yakima area.

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Police say Leonnel Barajas was taken by his uncle, 23-year-old Manuel C. Mendoza. Mendoza broke down the back door of the boy's home, pointed a gun and took the child.

Mendoza was taken into custody in the Yakima area at about 6 a.m.

Jessica Mendoza, the boy's mother, was found with Barajas in the Yakima area at about 8 a.m.

The child had been living with his father.

There was some kind of custody dispute and police are trying to determine who has actual custody of the child.

Cox Media Group

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