Amber Alert Issued for 10 Year Old Illinois Boy
Posted: Friday September 2, 2005 1:11 PM CT


The state of Illinois and the Mercer County Sheriff’s Office has issued the Amber Alert after the child was taken from his bedroom on Thursday night.

Devin K. Hankins 10 years old. The child was last seen wearing silver wire rimmed glasses, his hair parts to the left due to a cowlick and he has a mole on his neck. He was wearing mesh shorts.

The suspect is his non-custodial mother Aimee Lynn Hankins. The suspect is female, white, 34 years old, five feet tall, one hundred twenty five pounds, brown hair and green eyes, with tattoos on the left wrist and left forearm.

The suspect's vehicle is a gray 1994 Ford Taurus, Arkansas license 502GKP.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Mercer County Sheriffs Office at 309-582-5194 or dial 911.