3:30 P.M. UPDATE:

An AMBER Alert for a 5-year-old Carson City girl who was abducted by her father has been canceled after authorities located both the child and suspect in Southern California.

According to Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong, the U.S. Marshals Service found 5-year-old Amaya Meithof and her father, Christopher Meithof, in Lancaster, California, located in Los Angeles County.

Authorities say Amaya was found safe and unharmed.

Christopher Meithof is now in custody.

The AMBER Alert was issued after authorities said Amaya was abducted from Carson City early Monday morning. Investigators believed Christopher Meithof had taken the child in a 2020 Jeep Grand Cherokee and may have been traveling toward California.

Deputies arrived at a home on Loan Mountain Street in Carson City on Sunday and met with Crystal Rose, who advised that she had allowed Christopher Meithof to stay with her overnight, so he could visit their 5-year-old child.

Rose said when she woke up on Sunday morning, she discovered Christopher and the child were not at home.

After several hours of trying to contact Christopher and Amaya, she contacted the Sheriff's Office.

Deputies checked local traffic and Flock cameras and located Christopher’s Red Jeep Grand Cherokee driving southbound on U.S. 395 passing old Clear Creek Road.

Deputies tried to call Christopher, but his phone went straight to voicemail.

At around 2:15 p.m. on Monday the U.S. Marshal’s Pacific Southwest Fugitive Task Force, the Homeland Security Investigations Los Angeles Division, and the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office Major Crimes Bureau conducted a traffic stop in Palmdale, California, on a vehicle and recovered Amaya.

Christopher was not with her at the time she was found but was located and arrested at a residence near the traffic stop.

Amaya is in the care of Palmdale Child Protective Services, which will help facilitate her return to her mother.  

ORIGINAL ARTICLE:

Authorities have issued an AMBER Alert for a 5-year-old girl abducted from Carson City. 

NDOT says Amaya Meithof was abducted by her father Christopher Meithof near 2021 Lone Mountain #15 in Carson City around 4:30 a.m.  

The suspect is driving a 2020 Jeep Grand Cherokee license plate: 576 QNU Oregon plate.

Christopher is 41-years old, 6'0" tall and weighs 170 pounds. 

The only description released so far for Amaya is that she's white.

They may be headed to Southbound Quartz Hill, California.

The child is known to have common allergies.

If you see them, call 911. 

The Carson City Sheriff's Office and U.S. Marshals are both working this case.