What does an Amber alert mean? Here’s why your phone is buzzing.
Updated May 10, 2021;
Your phone starts buzzing and tells you that an Amber alert has been issued. Or you see signs on the highway that bring one to your attention. In New Jersey, one went out on Monday afternoon after an infant was abducted from her East Orange home.
Police were searching for Chinna Payne and a suspect identified as 27-year-old Damion Payne, according to the alert posted on the New Jersey State Police website.
What are Amber alerts?
Amber alerts, also known as child abduction emergency alerts, are messages distributed by a child abduction alert system to ask the public to help find abducted children.