Amber Alert in Niagara Region for 9-year-old U.S. boy

Joseluis Resendiz is Hispanic, 4-foot-6, 65 pounds, has dark hair and was last seen with his mother, uncle

CBC News, Posted: Aug 1, 2013 5:06 AM ET, Last Updated: Aug 1, 2013 7:00 AM ET, Source

Joseluis Resendiz, the subject of an Amber Alert in Niagara, is Hispanic, four-foot-six, weighs 65 pounds, and has dark hair. He was last seen wearing a blue soccer T-shirt (Messi-Barcelona), blue plaid shorts and blue Adidas running shoes, and has a birthmark on his left wrist and a metallic replacement tooth on the right side of his mouth. (Courtesy of Niagara Regional Police Service)

Police have issued an Amber Alert for nine-year-old Joseluis Resendiz, an American citizen believed abducted in the Niagara Region of southern Ontario last night.

Niagara Regional Police Service is trying to locate Edison Rojas-Castano, left, and Tivisay Rojas-Castano, in relation to the Amber Alert. (Courtesy of Niagara Regional Police Service)

Joseluis Resendiz was last seen wearing a blue soccer T-shirt (Messi-Barcelona), blue plaid shorts and blue Adidas running shoes, and is described as:

• Hispanic.
• Four-foot-six.
• Weighing 65 pounds.
• Has dark hair.
• Has a birthmark on his left wrist and a metallic replacement tooth on the right side of his mouth.

Niagara Regional Police Service is trying to locate Tivisay Rojas-Castano, the boy's mother, and his uncle, Edison Rojas-Castano, in relation to an abduction.

Went missing on Marineland trip

Const. Derek Watson said the child was reported missing Wednesday at 9 p.m. ET.

The boy and his father are U.S. citizens who live in Georgia, and were in Niagara Falls for a family visit to Marineland.

“The biological mother and her brother separated from the group with the boy and that’s when he was last seen,” Watson told CBC News.

“Any time that we have a child taken without explanation, we have some concerns,” for their safety, said Watson.

The mother “is estranged from the boy and they [had] not seen each other in four or five years,” he said.

Police say both adults are believed to have fled the Niagara Falls, Ont., with Joseluis in a grey four-door sedan. They say the two have ties to Toronto as well as Hamilton, and may be in either city.

Tivisay Rojas-Castano is a 40-year-old Hispanic woman, and is five feet tall and weighs 145 pounds. He has long blond hair and was last seen wearing a green dress, red belt and blue sandals.

Anyone with information is asked to call 911

Ontario Amber Alert boy found safe at downtown Toronto hotel; mother, uncle reportedly arrested

Canadian Press, 13/08/01, Last Updated: 13/08/01 12:08 PM ET, Source

An Ontario Provincial Police cruiser

Police say a nine-year-old boy allegedly abducted by his mother and uncle has been found safe in Toronto. His mother and uncle are in police custody.

Police say the boy was found in a downtown Toronto hotel nearly a day after he went missing while on a family trip to Marineland.

Police say the boy’s uncle has been arrested in a separate location.

The announcement the boy was found came shortly after an Amber Alert in his name was cancelled.

Police believed the boy was in the company of his mother and uncle. Both adults were believed to have fled Niagara Falls with the boy.

Earlier, police spokesman Const. Derek Watson said investigators had obtained video of the mother withdrawing money from an ATM in Mississauga, west of Toronto, around 9:15 p.m. Wednesday.

Watson said the boy and his father are U.S. citizens who live in Georgia and were in Niagara Falls for a family visit to Marineland.

“Throughout the course of the day, there’s a group of them, maybe eight or nine, and the mother (and) the uncle take the son and remove themselves from the group,” Watson told CP24.

He said it took about six hours for the family to notice the boy was gone.

“This is about 3 p.m. It wasn’t until about nine that the family realized that they were gone. There was no sign of the son and the vehicle had left the parking lot.”

Watson said the father and biological mother are estranged and it’s believed the boy had not seen his mother for quite some time.

“There is no relationship between the child and the mother,” said Watson.

“I don’t think they’ve had any contact for over four years. Through our investigation, there’s no doubt this was planned.”