The Roanoke Times is reporting that a desperate, weeklong hunt for 12-year-old Brittany Smith and her accused abductor ended Friday night when a retail store clerk recognized them shopping in San Francisco and police there seized them without a fight.
Brittany wasn’t physically hurt and was being interviewed by San Francisco police, said Roanoke County police Chief Ray Lavinder. Her slain mother’s live-in boyfriend, Jeffrey Easley, 32, was charged on a Roanoke County arrest warrant with abduction. Roanoke County authorities will swiftly move to extradite him back to Virginia, Lavinder said.
A nationwide, seven-day hunt for Brittany and Easley yielded more than 700 tips, but no confirmed sightings since their trip to the Salem Walmart last Friday for camping gear purchased with a credit card stolen from Tina Smith, Brittany’s mom, Lavinder said.
Tina Smith, 41, a nurse at a Richfield Retirement Community in Salem, was found dead in her home on Monday. Brittany was gone, abducted by Easley, police said. With a nationwide Amber Alert, canceled Friday night, law enforcers and citizens across the U.S. joined the hunt.
Source:www.timesnews.net
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