VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - Police are looking for a missing three-year-old girl believed to be in extreme danger.
Virginia State Police activated a Missing/Endangered Child Alert early Saturday morning for Samalea Monet Daniels, 3, who was last seen in Virginia Beach.
According to a release put out just before 1:30 a.m., the child "is believed to be in extreme danger."
Police say Samalea was initially reported missing in North Carolina on June 20.
Samalea's father contacted Virginia Beach police detectives on July 14 about the missing report he had filed in North Carolina, according to officers, and an order was issued by a Virginia Beach judge for Samalea to be returned to her father.
Virginia Beach police say Samalea was taken from her home in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, where she lives with her father who is her legal guardian.
Samalea was taken by her mother, 29-year-old Tianna Daniels, according to police, and was last seen at her grandmother's house on Stonington Court in Virginia Beach.
The two may be traveling in a gray 2011 Ford Escape with Virginia plates N4M45T3.
Samalea is 2'10" with brown eyes and black hair. Tianna is 5'6" with hazel eyes and brown hair.
Anyone with information about where Samalea and Tianna might be is asked to call 911 or the Virginia Beach Police Department right away at 757-385-5000.
