AMBER Alert Update: Missing 16-year-old girl in Hunt County found safe
Jordan Maceachran
WEST TAWAKONI, Texas - Police in the Hunt County city of West Tawakoni say a missing 16-year-old girl has been found safe.
A local Amber Alert was issued on Thursday afternoon for Jordan Maceachran. She went missing on Wednesday morning.
Maceachran mother told FOX 4 she was concerned about her daughter's health and police considered her to be in grave or immediate danger.
AMBER Alert
The AMBER alert (America’s Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response alert) was created in response to the kidnapping and death of nine-year-old Amber Hagerman of Arlington, Texas.
AMBER Alert Criteria
- Is this child 17 years of age or younger, whose whereabouts are unknown, and whose disappearance law enforcement has determined to be unwilling, which poses a credible threat to the child's safety and health; and if abducted by a parent or legal guardian, was the abduction in the course of an attempted murder or murder?ORIs this child 13 years of age or younger, who was taken (willingly or unwillingly) without permission from the care and custody of a parent or legal guardian by:Someone unrelated and more than three years older,orAnother parent or legal guardian who attempted or committed murder at the time of the abduction?
- Someone unrelated and more than three years older,or
- Another parent or legal guardian who attempted or committed murder at the time of the abduction?
- Is this child in immediate danger of sexual assault, death or serious bodily injury?
- Has a preliminary investigation verified the abduction and eliminated alternative explanations for the child's disappearance?
- Is sufficient information available to disseminate to the public to help locate the child, a suspect, or the vehicle used in the abduction?