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Amber Alert canceled for 4 Topeka children ages 12, 10, 7, 5 taken by mother

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Posted at 1:55 PM, Jun 05, 2023
and last updated 2023-06-05 16:28:21-04

UPDATE, 3:30 p.m. | The Kansas Bureau of Investigation has canceled the Amber Alert after locating the four children unharmed.

Investigators say the children's mother, who was the suspect in the alert, has been taken into custody.

ORIGINAL REPORT | The Kansas Bureau of Investigation has issued an Amber Alert for four children taken by their mother Monday in southeast Topeka.

Police issued the alert for four children ranging in age from 5 years-old to 12 years-old.

The children were last seen at 2100 S.E. Swygart St. in Topeka. She left in an unknown direction.

"The suspects [sic] statements to the father indicate that all of the children are in imminent danger," the KBI said in a release about the Amber Alert.

Their mother, Dontresha Sabree Thomas, 30, may be driving a silver 2009 GMC Acadia with a temporary Kansas plate. The vehicle has a dangling exhaust pipe and cracked windshield.

Thomas, who may be wearing a white T-shirt and gray shorts, is described as 5 feet, 1 inch tall, weighing 110 pounds with black hair and brown eyes.

Anyone with information should call 911 or the Topeka Police Department at 785-368-9200.