A man accused of kidnapping a ten month old child and the child’s mother, setting off an Amber Alert late last month, was stopped and arrested in Alcorn County over the Fourth of July Weekend.
10-month-old Braelee Rayne Trapp was forcibly taken by Tony Lynn Lanier, Sr. in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee on June 25th, setting off an Amber Alert by the TBI.
State Troopers got information over the 4th of July holiday that Lanier would be travelling west bound on Highway 72. A pair of state troopers and Alcorn County Sheriffs Deputies pulled the suspected vehicle over near County Road 278 in Alcorn County.
The officers determined that the driver was wanted related to the kidnapping, and took Lanier to the Alcorn County Jail. The mother, Krista Trapp, and the kidnapped child were with the suspect. They were transported to the sheriffs office, according to the Alcorn County Sheriff’s Department.
The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation is involved in the matter.
UPDATE: Tony Lanier, Sr., the suspect in our recent #TNAMBERAlert was captured over the weekend in Alcorn, Mississippi.
Jon R Myers is the executive editor of Alcorn County News and the founder of the Mississippi News Group, which he started in 2013 to cover communities across North Mississippi. He also founded the Mississippi Sports Group in 2006, which grew from a single community publication into a statewide network covering high school and college athletics. He reports on local government, public safety, schools and community life in Corinth and Alcorn County, working from public meetings, agency records and interviews with the people involved. Contact him at editor@alcornnewsms.com with news tips or corrections. For a correction, include the article link and supporting source material.
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