Amber Alert canceled for 5 Year Old Virginia Boy
Posted: Tuesday April 18, 2006: 12:56 PM CST
Updated: Tuesday April 18, 2006 3:54 PM CST

The Spotsylvania Police Department and the Virginia State Police canceled the Amber Alert after the child was recovered safe and the suspects are in custody.

Tyron Atkins, 5 years old. He's three feet tall and 40 pounds. He was last seen wearing a red shirt and red shorts.

Police say Atkins was likely abducted by 32-year-old Janell Butler and an unknown black male, who is six feet tall and 220 pounds. He is wearing a black sweatshirt. Butler is a black female and is five-feet-five inches tall, weighing 170 pounds from the Richmond area.

They may be in a 1999 dark green Ford Winstar mini-van with Virginia license JXT-4820. They were last seen in the area of Ladysmith Food Lion about 10:30 a.m. headed south on Virginia Route 1.

If you have any information you are asked to contact the Spotsylvania County Sheriff's Office at 540-582-7115, the Virginia State Police at 1-800-822-4453, or dial 911.