Amber Alert: Abduction - 3 yr old HMJ

Missing Child

Missing From: San Bernardino, CA
Missing Date:
Issued for: California: Statewide

Contact: If you have information, please contact San Bernardino Sheriff's Department, 866-346-7632

Circumstances:

UPDATE: Contact phone number updated.
THE EMERGENCY NOTIFICATION AND TACTICAL ALERT CENTER (ENTAC) HAS ACTIVATED AN AMBER ALERT THROUGH THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE (NWS).ON MAY 3, 2009, AT 02:30 PM, BRIANT RODRIQUEZ WAS ABDUCTED FROM SAN BERNARDINO, CA.

Missing Child

Name: Briant Rodriquez
Alias:
Hair Color: BROWN
Eye Color: BROWN
Skin Color: HISPANIC
Age: 3YO
Height: 3FT
Weight: 40LBS
Gender: Male
Description:
LAST SEEN WEARING A YELLOW SHIRT WITH BLUE SLEEVES, BLUE STRIPPED SHORTS WITH TWO DIFFERENT COLORS OF BLUE. THE VICTIMS HAIR IS LONGER THAN SHOULDER LENGTH.

Suspect

Name: Unknown Unknown
Alias:
Hair Color:
Eye Color:
Skin Color: HISPANIC
Age: 18-20YO
Height: 5FT5
Weight:
Gender: Male
Description:
THIN BUILD, UNKNOWN HAIR AND EYE COLOR, LAST SEEN WEARING A BLACK BASEBALL HAT, BLUE JEANS AND GREEN T-SHIRT.

Vehicle Information

Make: Unknown
Model: Unknown
Color:
Interior Color:
License State:
License Text:
Vehicle Description:
THERE IS NO VEHICLE DESCRIPTION

Suspect

Name: Unknown Unknown
Alias:
Hair Color:
Eye Color:
Skin Color: HISPANIC
Age: 24YO
Height: 5FT10
Weight:
Gender: Male
Description:
THIN BUILD, UNKNOWN HAIR AND EYE COLOR, LAST SEEN WEARING A BLACK SHIRT, BLACK BOOTS, POSSIBLE ALIGATOR AND WHITE BANDANA OVER FACE.

Source: National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

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Abducted 3-year-old San Bernardino boy feared to be taken to Mexico

Investigators and the mother of a 3-year-old boy snatched from his San Bernardino home on Sunday fear Briant Rodriguez may have been taken to Mexico.

The FBI and sheriff's detectives, who have issued an Amber Alert for the abducted child, said there is no information yet on why this family was targeted.

Rosa Millana, who was tied up inside the house with four of her children when Briant was taken, said she just wants her youngest son back.

She dissolved into tears several times this afternoon while speaking about the ordeal, which unfolded in her Pedley Street home about 2:30 p.m. Sunday.

"They said they were going to take the baby to Mexico and they were going to kill him," said family friend Nancy Vargas, who translated for Millana.

Two armed men walked into the family's small, white, one-story home through the front door, which had been left open because Millana was about to take the kids to the park.

They tied the family up with tape while they ransacked the home for about 20 minutes, officials said. Although the men took Millana's cell phone and cash from her jacket pocket, they did not take a flat screen television.

The men then left, taking Briant with them. Millana heard a car door slam but there were no witnesses outside the describe their vehicle.

Briant's 8-year-old brother managed to free himself within minutes and untied the family. Millana immediately ran to Shop-Rite Market & Liquor, about two blocks away, to call 9-1-1. The boy's father was at work when his son was taken.

"My mom's very tired thinking of my little brother, where he's at," said 16-year-old Jose Barraza, who left for a friend's birthday party shortly before the intruders broke in. "I ask whoever has him to come back."

Sheriff's spokeswoman Jodi Miller said the kidnappers have not contacted the family for ransom and "we are concerned the child has been taken across the border."

Border patrol has been notified of the abduction. Even though an Amber Alert was sent out late Sunday, electronic freeway signs do not carry information because there is no vehicle description.

A sheriff's deputy has spent the day parked next to the family's home. Children have briefly come out of the house, riding bicycles in the front yard.

Briant's father, Raul Rodriguez, sat on a stoop in the backyard with his head dropped to his chest. His eyes were red-rimmed when he declined to comment.

The boy is 3-feet tall, weighs 40 pounds and has brown eyes and brown curly hair. He was last seen wearing a yellow shirt with blue sleeves, blue striped shorts and black sandals.

Family member said Briant loves Sponge Bob Squarepants.

The suspects are both said to be skinny, Spanish-speaking Hispanic men. One is said to be 18-years-old, 5'8 tall and wearing a black ball cap, blue jeans and a green T-shirt. The second suspect was about 24-years-old, 5'10 tall and was wearing a black shirt, black pants, black boots and a white bandana.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Amber Alert hotline at (866) 346-7632 or sheriff's Sgt. Doug Hubbard and Det. Jon Minard at (909) 387-3589.

Source: The San Bernardino Sun