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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Two Utah parents are facing child kidnapping charges after authorities say they grabbed their young daughters they don't have custody of, triggering an Amber Alert that ended with the girls found safe in New Mexico.
The Standard-Examiner newspaper in Ogden reports (http://bit.ly/1Znl4gz) that 35-year-old Christopher John Montoya and 27-year-old Monica Jody Martinez have been charged with two felony counts each.
The girls, ages 3 and 11 months, were reported missing after their parents took them from a baby-sitter in Clinton, Utah last week.
The girls were found safe at a hotel in Gallup, New Mexico several hours later after a clerk recognized them from the Amber Alert.
Police said they suspected the parents were on drugs and possibly dangerous.
No attorney was immediately listed in court records to Montoya or Martinez.
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