Texas authorities issued an AMBER Alert for a 12-year-old girl last spotted at a hotel in Houston with an older man.
Houston police say Chloie Brewer-Clark was seen around 3 a.m. Tuesday at the Crystal Inn & Suites near the Eastex Freeway/59 and Little York Road.
Brewer-Clark is believed to be with 26-year-old suspect, Ariel Anderson, according to the AMBER Alert. They were potentially traveling in a 2015 black Chevrolet Tahoe with a Louisiana license plate 310GOE.
Dawnyale LittleJohn, Brewer-Clark's aunt, told KPRC that Brewer-Clark left her home in Houston in her mother's SUV and drove to the hotel in North Harris County.
"Around 4 o'clock this morning we realized she was gone," LittleJohn said. "We started pinging her phone. We pinged the phone to this location."
LittleJohn told the local media outlet that staff and investigators told her family that Brewer-Clark met up with a man before leaving the hotel in his car.
"This is out of her character for any of this to be going on so I feel like she was lured into the situation," Wanda Short, Brewer-Clark's great grandmother, told KPRC.
The family told KPRC they believe Brewer-Clark was lured to the hotel. They said a private investigator confirmed the man is from Louisiana and that Brewer-Clark's credit or debit card was used at a motel in Baton Rouge.
Anderson is described as a Black male who is 6-foot-3. He has brown eyes and black hair.
Brewer-Clark was last seen wearing a green and yellow SpongeBob shorts and matching sports top. She is said to be 5-foot-1 and weigh about 120 pounds. She has black hair and brown eyes.
"Her phone was left here which 12-year-olds don't normally leave their phone, she's wearing a chain as well as a Rolex, a real Rolex, it's not fake, it's real and a SpongeBob outfit, she had like a crop top and spandex bottoms on," LittleJohn said.
The Houston Police Department is asking that anyone with information calls 911 or the HPD missing persons unit at 832-394-1840.
Hours before, Arkansas State Police issued an AMBER alert for a missing 16-year-old girl believed to be traveling with a 30-year-old man she met online.
Police issued the alert Monday for Autumn Nicole Lyon, from Mineral Springs, Howard County, after she was reported missing on Saturday. They said she is believed to be with one Adrian Garces.
Autumn is described as having long brown hair and a "fair" complexion. She is five feet, seven inches tall and around 135 pounds (photos provided by police depict Autumn with blonde hair, though it is now brown, according to police reports).
She was reportedly last seen wearing a brown t-shirt, black leggings, and white sneakers with her hair in a ponytail.
What is an Amber Alert?
As of 2023, 1,200 children were found through the AMBER Alert system and 180 children were rescued because of the emergency alerts.
"Every child featured in an AMBER Alert has been reported missing to law enforcement. The goal of an AMBER Alert is to instantly galvanize the community to assist in the search for and safe recovery of a missing child," Alan S. Nanavaty, Executive Director of Special Programs for , in a previous interview with Newsweek.
Nanavaty said on average, there are less than 200 AMBER Alerts issued each year. The alerts are broadcast through radio, TV, road signs, cellphones, and other data-enabled devices. The AMBER Alert system is being used in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Indian country, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Newsweek created a map using 2022 data showing states have seen the most Amber alerts in 2022. According to the data, there were 31 Amber Alerts in Texas in 2022.
The first AMBER Alert was issued in 1996. The notification, which stands for America's Missing Broadcast Emergency Response, has recovered at least 1,074 abducted children around the country.
Throughout the years, however, not all missing children are found and there are still 37 active alerts.
"Obviously we would want ever case of a missing child to be resolved and for the child to be recovered alive," Nanavaty told Newsweek.
The alerts serve as just one tool to help find missing children. Last year alone, Nanavaty said her organization had 20,000 children missing reported to the organization. Around 90% of those children were found.
"Since we've been tracking AMBER Alerts, since early 2005 timeframe, 99% of the children have been recovered," Nanavaty said. "It's not a good or bad thing. It's just what it is, and law enforcement continues to work on the cases."
In the past, the alerts were sent out through law enforcement and over television. A case stays under the supervision of a case manager at the NCMEC, according to Nanavaty. There are managers for different lengths of time that a child has been missing.
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