Police say Roanoke County Social Services was attempting to serve a Court ordered child removal for the children, but John Allison refused to share their location or allow CPS access to the children.
The children are believed to have been abducted by their parents and are believed to be in extreme danger, according to police.
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According to Amy Whittaker, the Public Information Officer for Roanoke County, Roanoke County Department of Social Services contacted the Roanoke County Police Department to request assistance in serving a child removal order in north Roanoke County on Tuesday, April 21. However, when social services personnel tried to serve the order assigning custody of the three children to DSS, their father refused to say where the children were or make arrangements to turn them over to DSS.
Out of concern the parents might try to remove the children from the Commonwealth, Whittaker says police obtained felony abduction warrants for 34-year-old John Allison and 35-year-old Ruby Allison and issued an Amber Alert Tuesday night, alerting law enforcement agencies across the eastern half of the U.S.
ROANOKE COUNTY, Va. (WFXR) — Many questions remain after three children involved in an Amber Alert in Roanoke County were found safe Wednesday. Roanoke County Police says it started when they…
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Doesn't say WHY they were removing the children, but they had lost custody and CPS was attempting to remove the children. That's definitely an abduction.