Two abducted children – Brooke and Adrian Gilley who were missing from Missouri last March were found safe in a grocery store in Florida Wednesday with their birth mother who kidnapped them.
On February 1, officers with the High Springs Police Department said found a missing 12-year-old boy and an 11-year-old girl with their non-custodial mother shopping in a Winn-Dixie grocery store with disguised identities
Kristi Gilley, 36, was arrested on an out-of-state kidnapping warrant, according to police.
Details as to why she was stripped of guardianship and how she abducted the kids was not immediately available.
Authorities said the children had been missing since March 15, 2022. They were turned over to the Florida Department of Children and Families Services and will be reunited with their family.
They were found when police conducted a routine vehicle tag check and discovered the vehicle’s owner was a fugitive.
Gilley remained behind bars in Florida on Sunday, and will be returned to Missouri to face charges there.
An update from Liberty police depoartment in Missouri said: ‘Both Gilley kids have been safely located out of state. Their non-custodial mother is in custody on parental kidnapping charges … Thank you to everyone who shared this post as it helped bring these children home.
‘The two children were turned over to the Florida Department of Children and Families and will be handed over to their Missouri relatives, officials said.
The non custodial mother initially kidnapped the children from Clay County, a suburb of Kansas City and managed to elude authorities for nearly a year.
