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AMBER ALERT: Police continue search for kidnapped 6-year-old boy, three suspects

Authorities tonight continue their search for a 6-year-old boy kidnapped this morning from his northeast valley home. Three Hispanic men are suspected of kidnapping the boy about 7:30 a.m.

At an evening news conference Las Vegas police Capt. Vincent Cannito said that the family was specifically targeted in the abduction and it was not random. No family members were involved, he said, declining to say what the relationship, if any, might be between the suspects and the family. It is not a parental abduction, he said. The boy's parents were divorced in 2005.


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  • He described the search for the boy, Cole Puffinburger, as national and said an Amber Alert has been sent to the Southwest region of the country.

    "There is a very real possibility that the suspects are Mexican nationals," Cannito said, noting it's possible the suspects are headed to Mexico.

    One of the men is described as having black, shoulder length, slicked-back hair. He is in his early 30s, five-feet seven inches tall and about 150 pounds. He was last seen wearing a white T-shirt and blue jeans.

    There is still no description of the suspects' vehicle.

    The men went to a home on Cherry Grove Avenue, near Hollywood and Lake Mead boulevards, claiming they were police officers, authorities said. They demanded money, and when the residents said they had none, the men tied up the boy's mother and her fiancee and took the boy, police said.

    Cole is 3 feet 11 inches tall, 48 pounds and has distinctly stained front teeth. He has blond hair and blue eyes. Cole was last seen wearing a black John Cena WWE wrestling shirt, dark jeans, a belt, black Vans shoes, white socks and a black, zip-up hooded sweat shirt with white, black and blue stars all over it.

    Anyone with information on this incident is asked to call 911 immediately, police said.

    "No tip is too small," Cannito said.

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    Cummings wrote on October 18, 2008 07:45 PM: On average 2185 kids are reported missing A DAY. Don't make this about illegals that has nothing to do with it. It's about bad people and those we have plenty of her in the USA. Legal and Illegal. In Nevada you have the right to carry a gun.. do it as things are only going to get worse.


    ConradDobler wrote on October 16, 2008 02:11 PM: Our girl Didi Lima should be leading the charge to find these fine latino 'gentlemen' so that she can help them avoid the spotlight....


    vgirllv wrote on October 16, 2008 09:57 AM: My family came here legally and Illegal imigrants and those that support them have no respect for the country they live in. As for this Kid Shut up and actually Keep an eye out and try to save him. Stop making this about who has him and why.. just hope he is ok, and keep your eyes open. thank you and sorry for the Illegal alien rant, but I get sick of heearing how there is no issue with it, or if there is you are a racist.


    Vgirl wrote on October 16, 2008 09:55 AM: While being upset about illegal aliens, wether they are hispanic, or Iranian or you pick the ethnic background, seems to make people automaticly call the person bringing it up a racist, or ignorant. I find that ironic that people jump to that assumption. People aren't racists for not wanting illegal aliens in the US. They are looking out for thier families, and friends and way of life. The reason they are called " ILLEGAL Aliens" is just for that reason. They are NOT here legally. It has nothing to do with not like Mexicans or anyone else. It is a matter of they are here against the law, which makes them a criminal either way. they might not be a kidnapper or a bank robber or rapist or you pick the crime. but " illegal" means just that. So why don't you IGNORANT low level thinking people, think before you speak. Illegal aliens don't benifit anyone. If they want to be here go through the propper channels, become a LEGAL citizen. If it takes to long.... TO BAD.. that is the process. If mexico or name your country sucks so bad.. then I am sorry, but why do you then want to come here and display your flags, banners, and bring your self professed crapy lifestyle here? You are the one trying to escape your culture. Illegally I might ad. Focus on the fact that ILLEGAL ALIENS are not a victimless crim. They leave victims everywhere they go, in problems with social upkeep over burdening schools, hospitals, food stamps, WIC, you name it.. So if you like them so much send your money to them in Mexico or wherever and help them become LEGAL citizens. I am from a Hispanic background. My family came here legally.


    Joe C wrote on October 16, 2008 09:41 AM: To whattheheck,

    No ones claiming Hispanics are the scum of the earth.
    What we are saying that illegals and those supporting illegal aliens have agendas some racist and hardly innocent victims just wanting work.

    We all understand that crimes are committed by every race.
    Crimes by illegals are completely avoidable if government did its jobs.

    This would free up great numbers of law enforcement to focus on other issues and empty one third of our prisons.

    There are huge numbers of Mexican Citizens and Hispanic against illegal immigration groups like, You Don’t Speak For Me.

    The systematic elimination of decent paying jobs, fake and stolen ID’s, all supported by business has brought and undesirable element to our country.

    Never have we forgot the little boy and want him found safely but to dismiss the fact illegal aliens are involved is a disgraceful tactic and part of the crime committed.

    We as citizens have a right to full knowledge of any harmful or adverse effect on us when government doesn’t do its job.

    You are selfish and dismissive.


    whattheheck wrote on October 16, 2008 08:42 AM: Illegals? WOW!!! Something to gain? WOW!!! Let's all you people who are claiming that hispanics are the "scum" that have illegally entered, taken a child for a benefit???? take a look at all the children that are missing k? http://www.missingkids.com/ take a look at all of them, every single one, It is across the board, the people that hurt children are all sick, why do you think they dont last long in jail. At least the hardened "criminals" at CCDC know that crimes against children are going to cost you your life even if you do not get it through your trial. There are just as many sick white, black, asian, hispanis people in this world...and OUR government, I will not even go there with you guys, a lot more goes on every day that we were not meant to know because if that were the case, we would all move WAYYYYY east. Focus on finding a missing child and not who took, why they took, who gained something from it...kiss your own kids and pray that heaven for bid he or she does not end up on a website someday...You people have issues...find that baby!!!! Keep him safe, and if that means away from the mother who "had something to do with this" then good!!!!


    Joe C wrote on October 16, 2008 06:48 AM: To Racist Much,
    What we can’t believe is our government and supposedly a caring and patriotic businesses act like they care about the community and practically force employee’s to do some community service; so they can claim they care.
    These are the exploiters of illegal cheap labor displacing millions of citizens, lowering wages and hiring of illegals encouraging more crime, social costs, and general harm to the legal public.

    One look at www.mexica-movement.org and you understand the racist movement is coming from south of our border.

    No one is forgetting a little boy has been kidnapped we are furious.

    Your distraction tactic is used by those racist illegals and supporters to dismiss the horrible effect illegal aliens have on our country.

    This is why we scream because illegal aliens shouldn’t have the opportunity to harm one legal citizen of any race.

    Never have we agreed with crime, we just want the rewarding of criminals stopped and the poor victimization act to end.

    If all that happened this little boy would still be act home.

    You dismissing that makes you a horrible selfish person.


    Narcissa wrote on October 16, 2008 03:12 AM: Racist Much wrote:

    "the fact that they are Mexicans is beside the point if they were Anglo American Citizens they would be just that ..."TERRIBLE PEOPLE!"

    Uh, nice try at deflecting, but "THE FACT" that these people are mexicans is ANYTHING BUT "beside the point", because "THE FACT" is that if the perps were American citizens, there wouldn't have been nearly as much that could have done to prevent this child's abduction.

    And you know it.

    WHEREAS, if these mexican perpetrators had been deported IN THE FIRST PLACE LIKE THEY SHOULD HAVE, following any prior arrest they may have had with Metro, a six year old boy would NOT have been abducted yesterday morning.

    And, you know that, too.

    -4 African American coeds in Newark, shot, execution style, by an illegal out on bail for RAPING A 5 YEAR OLD: They'd be alive, but their sherrif, LIKE GILLESPIE, wouldn't do everything he should done have to stop illegals in his community.

    -3 teenagers from Newport News, murdered by a mexican illegal that mowed them down while driving drunk. He had been arrested 19 TIMES before, but never reported to ICE.

    Why don't you tell the parents of those victims and the THOUSANDS of others who are NEEDLESSLY victimized, raped and/or murdered by mexican illegals EVERY YEAR, that the fact that the crime against their child COULD HAVE BEEN and SHOULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED is, "beside the point".

    In light of your profound logic that criminals everywhere-including American ones- are "terrible people", I'm sure they will immediately realize the flaw in their outrage over the fact that the "terrible person" who murdered their child wasn't supposed to be in the U.S. in the first place.

    Ignorance like yours is what's going to result in this country degenerating into a thirld world toilet.


    Racist Much??? wrote on October 16, 2008 01:06 AM: I can’t believe the comments below! They sound like their written by a bunch of ignorant racists. The fact is that an innocent child has been kidnapped by a bunch of TERRIBLE PEOPLE not "MEXICANS" the fact that they are Mexicans is beside the point if they were Anglo American Citizens they would be just that ..."TERRIBLE PEOPLE!"


    Narcisa wrote on October 15, 2008 11:39 PM: As I was saying...

    I'll bet these thugs could have been deported earlier and this whole mess avoided, but with both of these POLITICIANS so fixated on "not scaring" the illegals, the only thing we Las Vegans can look forward to is an escalation of Mexican style crime-right here in the sovreign United States of America.

    Keep THAT in mind when Sherrif Gillespie and Attorney General Cortez Masto are up for re-election; I know I will.


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