By Brianna Hamblin , Wendy Wright , Keegan Trunick and Spectrum News Staff Greece UPDATED 8:44 PM ET Jan. 19, 2021 PUBLISHED 1:08 AM ET Jan. 19, 2021 PUBLISHED 1:08 AM EST Jan. 19, 2021
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GREECE, N.Y. An intense search and massive multi-police agency search is underway in an effort to find two young children abducted from their Greece home Sunday night.
“We are gravely concerned for their wellbeing,” said Greece Police Chief Drew Forsythe during a news conference on Tuesday as he described the terrifying events surrounding the abduction of Shekeria Cash, 3, and her br
The father of two children who were abducted earlier this week had previously lost custody of all four of his children, reportedly for abusive corporal punishment.
As CrimeOnline previously reported, two tall mask-wearing men reportedly kidnapped Shekeria Cash, 3, and Dimitri Cash Jr., 5, from a foster home in Greece, New York. Both men were dressed identical, police said, wearing flannel shirts, khaki pants, black ski masks, and black ski hats.
The suspects smashed into a window at the home and specifically searched for Dimitri Jr. and Shekeria. Police said the suspects violently grabbed the children and put duct tape around a foster mother and two other children, NBC 10 reports.
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Dimitri Cash Jr., 5, and his younger sister Shekeria Cash, 3, were located in Montgomery, Alabama shortly before 6 p.m., said Greece Police Chief Drew Forsythe. The siblings were on the floorboard, under blankets in the backseat of a vehicle after police tracked a rental car there.
The children are in police custody tonight and are in no further danger, Forsythe said.
The siblings were forcibly and violently removed from their foster home on English Road around 8:40 p.m. Monday by two masked, unidentified suspects.
Authorities tracked a car rented locally to an address in Montgomery. A woman leaving that residence was apprehended during a vehicle stop, which is when the children were located. Forsythe would not reveal if the police have identified the two men who kidnapped the children. They are not in custody, however.
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GREECE, N.Y. (WHEC) Police in Greece are celebrating the successful rescue of two children kidnapped from their home. They say a team of federal investigators found Dimitri and Shakeria Cash, safe, in Alabama. UPDATE This is an AMBER Alert Cancellation.
The Town Of Greece Police Department is cancelling the AMBER Alert that was activated at 11:59 PM on 1/18/2021 regarding SHEKERIA CASH and DIMITRI CASH.
The children were recovered safely. NewYorkStatePolice (@nyspolice) January 20, 2021
Police say this case is far from over; there are still more suspects they re trying to find, but less than 48 hours after they were taken, and 40 minutes after they got word of where they might be, the children were safe.