EL PASO, Texas (Border Report) – A man and a child missing from Washington state since June 3 have been found safe and sound in Mexico.
Authorities in Pullman, Washington, had been looking for Aaron Aung for failing to return his 2-year-old daughter Seraya Aung Harmon to her mother’s custody.
The City of Pullman said Mexican authorities located Aung and the child at a roadside checkpoint near Santa Ana, Sonora. The FBI coordinated the return of Aung and Soraya through Mexico’s National Migration Institute and U.S. Customs and Border Protection last Sunday.
Aung is being held at the Santa Cruz County Detention Center in Nogales, Arizona. He’s awaiting extradition to Whitman County, Wash., on a first-degree custodial interference warrant; the 2-year-old is in Arizona Child Protective Services, the Pullman Police Department said in a statement on Monday.
Police in Nogales, Mexico, had a slightly different version of how Aung and the missing child were located.
The Nogales Public Safety Secretariat posted photos of Aung being deported from Mexico on its web pages. It turned over to CBP at the Dennis DeConcini port of entry in Nogales, Ariz.
The Mexican police agency said someone reported a suspicious black Cadillac on a street in the El Rosario neighborhood of Nogales, Sonora. The municipal police said officers approached an American adult who identified himself as “Daniel” and had a 2-year-old child with him he claimed was his daughter.
The Public Safety Secretariat said police determined the man was wanted by U.S. authorities and subsequently handed him over at the border.