SUFFOLK, Va. — The mother of two young girls whom Suffolk Police said they were investigating as a potential parental abduction has shared documentation with News 3 indicating that she has joint legal care and custody of her daughters.
Documentation from Breone'a Haskett Lee also shows she is filing a motion to squash and dismiss the warrant for her arrest on parental kidnapping charges, based on an August 2025 joint custody order from Portsmouth Juvenile & Domestic Relations District (JDR) Court.
The order says Lee shares joint legal care and custody, with "primary physical custody" to the father, and "reasonable and liberal parenting time to mother."
Lee disputes the charges against her, claiming the father's allegations are false.
SPD reported that Lee had taken her daughters, Angel Blake, 7, and A'Briella Blake, 6, from their home in Suffolk on Dec. 7 to go Christmas shopping, but they never returned.
Police say their investigation revealed Haskett Lee brought the children to her home in Dallas, Texas, and enrolled them in school there.
The father has primary physical custody of the two children, ages 7 and 6.
The order says Lee shares joint legal care and custody, with "primary physical custody" to the father, and "reasonable and liberal parenting time to mother."
News 3 reported on Tuesday night based on a release from the Suffolk Police Department, in which said they had issued warrants for Lee.
News 3 went to the 8000 block of Harbor View Boulevard, where police say the potential parental abduction happened. There's not much in the area but two hotels, a church, a few corporations and a restaurant.
Suffolk Police say they have no additional information to provide at this time.
In a release sent to us on December 23, SPD said they're working with Dallas Police Department to locate the mother and two children.
Police say at the time the children were not considered to be in danger.
Haskett Lee told News 3 that both children are back en route to Virginia.
It was noted in the release that Lee "does not have primary custody of her children and was not granted permission to take them out of state."
The children were not in danger, police said.
