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Amber Alert canceled for missing 2-year-old; father now in custody

Toddler found safe after Amber Alert

GEORGIA — Deputies say a missing 2-year-old boy at the center of an Amber Alert has been found safe.

The Laurens County Sheriff’s Office said Tyler Coney kidnapped his 2-year-old son from the boy’s grandmother.

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Officials said Coney does not have any parental rights to the child and he left driving a 2000 Dodge Durango.

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The sheriff’s office and Georgia Bureau of Investigation issued a Levi’s Call, the state’s Amber Alert system.

The boy was eventually found safe overnight. Coney will face charges for the kidnapping.






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