CARSON CITY, Nev. (News 4 & Fox 11) — A child kidnapped out of Carson City was found safe in California after an AMBER Alert was activated, according to the Carson City Sheriff’s Office. A suspect is in custody.
The Carson City Sheriff’s Office responded to the 2000 block of Loan Mountain St. for a child custody dispute report around 3:30 p.m. on May 31. On arrival, patrol Deputies met with a woman who told them that she had allowed Christopher Meithof to stay with her overnight, so he could visit their 5-year-old child.
The woman told police that when she woke up Sunday morning, she discovered Christopher and the child were not at home. After several hours of attempting to contact and locate Meithof and the child, she contacted the Carson City Sheriff’s Office.
Authorities say Carson City Sheriff’s Office patrol deputies checked local traffic and Flock cameras and located Christopher’s Red Jeep Grand Cherokee driving southbound on Hwy 395, passing old Clear Creek Rd. at 4:36 a.m. Patrol deputies attempted to contact Christopher, but his phone went directly to voicemail.
The U.S. Marshal’s Pacific Southwest Fugitive Task Force, the Homeland Security Investigations Los Angeles Division, and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office Major Crimes Bureau conducted a traffic stop in Palmdale, California, around 2:15 p.m. on June 1, and recovered the missing Carson City child.
Authorities say the child is safe and unharmed. The suspect, Christopher Meithof, was not with the child at the time of the recovery but was located and arrested at a residence near the traffic stop. Meithof was arrested without incident and is in custody at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Palmdale station, pending extradition to Nevada. The child is in the care of Palmdale Child Protective Services, which will help facilitate the child’s return to her mother.
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Anyone who has any information pertaining to this investigation is asked to contact Detective Bruce Pendragon at (775) 283-7856.