Twin 8-year-old girls found after being reported missing from New Orleans
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NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Twin 8-year-old girls, who were missing from New Orleans, have been found. Investigators believed the girls’ mother may have taken them without legal permission.
The New Orleans Police Department reported the girls were last seen in their mother’s custody. 36-year-old Alejandra Gutierrez, the mother, was wanted on two counts of interference with custody of a child.
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According to the NOPD, their mother is a non-custodial parent and has allegedly abducted them in the past.
The girls were last seen in New Orleans at Rock-N-Sake Sushi Bar at 823 Fulton St. on Wednesday, July 31.
The Louisiana State Police initially issued an Endangered/Missing Child Alert for one girl because she suffered from a life-threatening medical condition and didn’t have the required medication she needed.
At 9 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 2, deputies with the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office were alerted that Gutierrez may have been driving in the Mandeville area. Deputies, LSP troopers and the FBI responded and found all three in the 300 block of Oak Island Drive.
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They have since been returned to their father.
STPSO deputies arrested Gutierrez as a fugitive and she was booked into the St. Tammany Parish Correctional Facility.
She will be transferred to Orleans Parish Prison on warrants issued by the NOPD.
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