An Amber Alert was issued Friday for Owen Hidalgo-Calderon, who was abducted from Sodus, New York, nine days ago. (Published 5 hours ago)
Police in western New York are searching for a 14-month-old boy after his mother's body was found in a bag hidden in the woods a week after she had been reported missing.
An Amber Alert was issued Friday for Owen Hidalgo-Calderon, who was abducted from Sodus, New York, nine days ago "under circumstances that lead police to believe that he is in imminent danger of serious physical harm and or death," according to the New York State Police bulletin.
The Wayne County Sheriff's office said 18-year-old Selena Hidalgo-Calderon's body was found Thursday at a farm in Sodus where she and her boyfriend, 25-year-old Edward Reyes, worked. The body was between two logs and covered with soil and branches. She had been missing for a week.
Reyes, was arrested Wednesday night on charges of tampering with physical evidence.
State Police say the child may have been last seen with Reyes.
Reyes, caught on a hunter's trail camera going in and out of the woods with a shovel. He has admitted to burying the woman but not killing her, Wayne County Sheriff Barry Virts said.
Reyes was being held on $25,000 bail in the Wayne County Jail pending a court appearance May 29. Virts said he is working with authorities in Mexico, where Reyes is from, to learn more about him and if he has a criminal record. He is not the missing child's father.
Attorney information for Reyes was not immediately available.
Rebecca Fuentes of the Workers' Center of Central New York told the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle that Hidalgo-Calderon was from Guatemala and was being deported. She says the mother was in the process of applying for asylum and had been in the U.S. since November 2016.
At one point while the mother and child were missing, relatives indicated that Hidalgo-Calderon and Reyes, who lived together, may have run off because of their immigration status, the sheriff's office said, but checks of surrounding train and bus stations had turned up nothing.
"My daughter and my grandson were my life," Hidalgo-Calderon's mother, Estela Calderon, said in a statement issued by the center. "She was my first born and I feel like a piece of my heart is gone."
Meanwhile, police are continuing to search the area east of Rochester for little Hidalgo-Calderon. He has short, brown hair and brown eyes. He is about 2 feet tall and weighs about 30 pounds; he also needs asthma medication.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Wayne County Sheriffs Department at 866-NYS-AMBER or 911.
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New York authorities issued an Amber Alert on Friday for a toddler whose mother was found dead upstate this week.
Authorities are investigating the abduction of little Owen Hidalgo-Calderon, who was last seen on Joy Road in Sodus, NY, at about 9:50 a.m. May 16, according to the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office.
“The child was taken under circumstances that lead [sic] police to believe that they are in imminent danger of serious physical harm and or death,” the Amber Alert read.
Owen, 14 months old, was described as approximately 2 feet tall and weighing about 30 pounds. He is known to need asthma medication.
According to the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office, the body of the boy’s mother, 18-year-old Selena Hidalgo-Calderon, was found in a bag Thursday in a wooded area near an apple orchard in Sodus, where she reportedly worked.
She had been missing for a week.
Her boyfriend, Everado Reyes, was then arrested on charges of tampering with physical evidence.
Police continued their search for Owen on Friday.
With Post wires
SODUS, N.Y. -- Police in western New York issued an Amber Alert on Friday for a missing 14-month-old boy whose mother's body was found in a plastic bag hidden in the woods two days earlier. The alert said the child, Owen Hidalgo-Calderon, was last seen May 16, the same day his mother, Selena Hidalgo-Calderon, was last seen before her body was found Wednesday morning.
"The child was taken under circumstances that lead the police to believe that he is in imminent danger of serious harm and/or death," the alert said.
The toddler is known to need asthma medication, the alert said, adding it is unknown what he was last seen wearing.
The body of 18-year-old Selena Hidalgo-Calderon was found at a farm in the Wayne County town of Sodus where she and her boyfriend, 25-year-old Edward Reyes, worked. The body was between two logs and covered with soil and branches.
Reyes, caught on a hunter's trail camera going in and out of the woods with a shovel, was arrested Wednesday night on charges of tampering with physical evidence. He has admitted to burying the woman but not killing her, Wayne County Sheriff Barry Virts said.
Reyes was being held on $25,000 bail in the Wayne County Jail pending a court appearance May 29. Virts said he is working with authorities in Mexico, where Reyes is from, to learn more about him and if he has a criminal record. He is not the missing child's father.
At one point while the mother and child were missing, relatives indicated that Hidalgo-Calderon and Reyes, who lived together, may have run off because of their immigration status, the sheriff's office said, but checks of surrounding train and bus stations had turned up nothing.
Rebecca Fuentes of the Workers' Center of Central New York told the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle that Hidalgo-Calderon was from Guatemala and was seeking asylum.
"I don't care about your race, creed, color, national origin or religion," Virts said at a news conference. "If you are a victim, we will fight for you, we will triumph for you. If you are a perpetrator and you have abused somebody, we are going to hunt you down."
Hidalgo-Calderon had been in the U.S. since November 2016, according to the Workers' Center.
"My daughter and my grandson were my life," her mother, Estela Calderon, said in a statement issued by the center. "She was my first born and I feel like a piece of my heart is gone."
Anyone with any information is asked to call the Wayne County Sheriff's Department at (866) NYS-AMBER or to call 911 to report a sighting.
