Yameli Nava, AMBER Alert, 11/05/08 TX

Amber Alert Issued For Kidnapped Dallas 4-Year-Old

Reporting J.D. Miles

DALLAS (CBS 11 News) ― Breaking news in Northeast Dallas where an Amber Alert has been issued for a kidnapped child. Dallas police detectives say a man took off in his ex-girlfriend's car with a 4-year-old girl inside.

The suspect, identified as 26-year-old Tinoco Cipriano, was last seen leaving a shopping plaza at Forest Lane and Audelia Road.

The Dallas Police Department issued the Amber Alert for little Yameli Nava just after 5 p.m.

Cipriano is the common-law husband of the 4-year-old's mother, but not the child's father. The incident began in at the Bent Creek Apartments on Audelia. Police say a 30-year-old woman was putting her daughter, Yameli, in a car, when she discovered her common-law husband, Cipriano, hiding in the backseat.

There was a confrontation inside the vehicle and Cipriano allegedly stabbed the woman.

"She immediately stops the car and jumps out, for fear of her safety," explained Dallas Police Department Sr. Cpl. Kevin Janse.

"She was not able to grab the child out of the car before the suspect jumped in the driver's seat and drove off."

The suspect reportedly fled the scene in a red Toyota 4-door vehicle, license plate LWP – 599.

Police have initiated a ground search and are currently going to locations where Cipriano may have fled.

Yameli Nava was last seen wearing a yellow shirt and pink pants. The little girl's mother is at Parkland Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Anyone with information about this child abduction is asked to contact the Dallas Police Department Youth Division at 214-671-4268.

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