State authorities canceled an Amber Alert just after 4:00 p.m. Tuesday after a child was reported missing in Shelton, Washington, ending a fast-moving search that began hours earlier. Washington State Patrol said it found the suspect vehicle around 3:00 p.m., shortly after the alert went out.
The alert sent at 2:42 p.m. said a four-year-old child had been taken by his father, 26-year-old Joshua Moen, during a supervised visit Wednesday afternoon. The child was last seen with Moen around 12:30 p.m. near the 600 block of W Park St in Shelton, and authorities said the two were believed to be traveling in Moen's blue 2005 Honda Pilot with Washington license plate CDE7808.
Moen is described as 5'8", 180 lbs, with brown hair and hazel eyes. Authorities said he has a tattoo on his left arm with the word Northwest and a tree, and tattoos on his knuckles reading ROCK on one hand and ROLL on the other.
Amber alerts are designed to move fast when a child may be in immediate danger, and this case showed that system working on a tight clock. The vehicle was located shortly after the alert was first issued, and the cancellation just after 4:00 p.m. signaled that the search had moved out of the emergency phase, at least for now.
The case centered on a missing child alert in Shelton, where every minute mattered once the report came in. More details were available in a related report on the Amber Alert in Washington issued for 4-year-old Kyson Moen in Shelton:
