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AMBER ALERT: Missing 3-month-old from NC found safe

CLYDE, NC (WBTW) – Heather and Rex Cochran have been found with the missing child and taken into custody at 5:25 p.m. in Fletcher, North Carolina, Wednesday evening.

Officers with the Fletcher Police Department reportedly made entry to a home on Coffee Lane and located the suspects in the basement.

The child is safe and is being looked over by a medical team at this time, which is a standard procedure when there is a child involved in a missing person case.

According to an Amber Alert message from SLED, a 3-month-old infant was abducted from a home at 222 Northwood Drive, Clyde, North Carolina around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday night. Officials say the non-custodial parents abducted their 3-month-old infant and are traveling from North Carolina and possibly heading to Ocala, Florida or Valdosta, Georgia.

Police say the duo may be driving a blue 2001 Ford Mustang or GMC Suburban.

The subjects are Rex Cochran, described as a 39-year-old white male, standing about 5′ 7″, weighing 185 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes, and Heather Cochran. Heather is described as a 31-year-old white woman, standing about 5′ 4″, weighing 120 pounds, with brown hair and green eyes.

The makes and models of the vehicles the Cochrans may be in are a blue 2001 Ford Mustang with unknown tags or a gray 1999 GMC Suburban with tag number 489-AWH.