A frantic police search Monday morning located a pair of girls after they were kidnapped in western Georgia a day earlier, prompting authorities to warn they were in “extreme danger.”
The alarm was raised after Kylie Horne, 11, and Kylann Harper, 4, disappeared from a Burger King in Columbus, Georgia, at 11:52 a.m. on Sunday.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) said the girls were last seen with Mikaela Harrell, a 49-year-old woman with prior drug convictions. Her relationship with the girls remains unknown.
Also identified as a person of interest was Kaila Spiers, who was identified by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children as the children’s mother, according to Fox 5 Atlanta.
A statement issued Monday by the Columbus Police Department said: “As of Monday, October 16, 2023 at approximately 11:30 a.m., both children have been located in the South Georgia area and are safe.
“The investigation is ongoing and charges could be filed against those involved in the kidnapping.”
Kylie Horne, 11, and Kylann Harper, 4, are believed to have been kidnapped from a Burger King in Columbus, Georgia, on Sunday morning. Facebook/Burden-of Proof
Mikaela Harrell, 49, and Kaila Spiers, 39, believed to be the mother of the missing girls, have been named persons of interest in the kidnapping.
A later statement from the same police department confirmed that Spiers was the children’s mother and had been arrested.
They also said she would be extradited to Columbus in the near future and a court date would be decided later.
Public records show Harrell is a resident of Ocilla, Georgia, with at least two methamphetamine possession convictions on her record, including a felony possession charge in which she was caught with between 28 and 199 grams of the narcotic.
Harrell was on probation for nine years between August 2007 and August 2016. She is not believed to have been charged in connection with the kidnapping.
Spiers has at least one prior criminal conviction, a robbery charge that included breaking and entering into a residential home, according to Department of Corrections records.
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