Abducted 5-Year-Old Boy Still Missing Two Weeks Later, LASD Says

LOS ANGELES, CA — Authorities are asking for the community's help finding a 5-year-old boy whose mother allegedly abducted him from a business in East Los Angeles two weeks ago.

According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, 29-year-old Alicia Fuentes abducted her son Kamilo Sanders, whom she does not have legal custody of. Investigators with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Missing Persons Unit believe Fuentes took the boy from a business located at 635 S. Atlantic Ave. at about 8 p.m. on May 4.

Fuentes left the location traveling in an unknown direction in a 2005 Infiniti FX35, California license plate 5SGY139. She is known to travel to Mexico, and authorities are asking people across Southern California to be on the lookout for her and Kamilo.

The boy is Hispanic, 3 feet tall and weighs 40 pounds, with brown hair and green eyes.

His mother is described as Hispanic, 5 feet 2 inches tall and130 pounds, with black hair and green eyes, according to the sheriff's department.

Anyone with information on their whereabouts was asked to call East Los Angeles Detective Rojas at 323-981-5006 or Detective Mendoza at 323-981- 5044. Anonymous tips can be called into Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477 or submitted online at lacrimestoppers.org.

City News Service contributed to this report.