Deputies Recover Abducted 5-Year-Old At Truck Stop

FAYETTE COUNTY—An abducted 5-year-old girl was recovered at a Fayette County truck stop Friday.

NBC 4 reported with the FAST FACTS.

Annabelle Williams-Forlano, 5, was abducted Tuesday, Feb. 17, by her biological parents during supervised visitation at a Chuck E. Cheese Restaurant in Conroe, Tx, according to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.

Amber alerts were issued for Annabelle.

Annabelle was located by Fayette County sheriff’s deputies in a parked semi tractor-trailer on the parking lot of the TA truck Stop at the intersection of Interstate 71 and Highway 35 Friday morning.

The Fayette County sheriff’s office was contacted by the Houston, Tx., office of the FBI, advising an Amber Alert was issued in Texas on the family abduction.

The FBI reported Annabelle was abducted by her noncustodial mother, Angela Faith Williams, 46, and her noncustodial father, Carl Forlano.

The abduction took place at a restaurant in Conroe, Texas, the FBI said. The subsequent investigation indicated the couple fled Texas in a black 18-wheel tractor and trailer with Texas license plates.

Authorities were able to track the tractor-trailer to the area of the TA truck stop and notified Fayette County.

Deputies located the suspect truck at the rear of the truck stop and attempted to make contact at the truck.

While deputies were at the truck, other deputies were positioned near the area and observed a male matching the description of Forlano exit a local store.

When Forlano spotted the deputies, he fled across the highway and was apprehended in the Prime Outlet Mall parking lot.

Forlano advised deputies the child and her mother were in the sleeping compartment of the truck and provided keys to open the truck.

Once inside deputies located the mother hiding the child in the sleeping compartment, officials said.

Both adults were taken into custody, and the child was turned over to Fayette County Children Services until the state of Texas comes to Ohio to return the child to their jurisdiction.

Williams and Forlano were being held in the Fayette County Jail, awaiting extradition to Texas.

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