Amber Alert issued for 14-day-old twins taken from Livonia in a black Jeep Grand Cherokee

Police and family are frantically looking for two-week-old twin boys, who, police said, where taken from a Livonia hotel by two women who drove off in a black Jeep Grand Cherokee with chrome trim and Michigan license plate EHD1130. The alert was issued just before 6 a.m. and broadcast throughout metro Detroit.

Livonia police offered few details, saying only that the incident occured last night and investigators were interviewing the parents. Michigan State Police offered more in a post, adding that the newborns may have only been in diapers.

The Jeep, state police said, was last seen near the Quality Inn on Plymouth Road.

The infants’ grandmother, Lolita Vann, of Romulus, told the Free Press she was worried sick about her grandbabies. She said she received a call from someone who said she had been asked to call her on behalf of her daughter, Jazlyn Morgan.

“I’m trying to piece the puzzle together,” Vann said. “All I know is that my grandchildren went missing yesterday evening around 10 o’clock. And we don’t know the situation. I haven’t talked to her mom. She isn’t being held, but is at the police department.”

Vann said it was her understanding that daughter was trying to get help for a place to stay with her infant sons after her home was broken into and some people offered her diapers, but didn’t know how the situation turned into an abduction.

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The children — Matthew Jace and Montana Alexander Bridges — were taken by two women, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

“It’s so important we get these babies home,” Vann added, pointing out that at their young age, they need constant care and are especially vulnerable. “I don’t know if they’ve eaten, been changed, if they are crying? They are newborns.”

Authorities are asking anyone with information please to call 911 or the Livonia Police Department at 734-466-2470.

AMBER is an acronym for America’s Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response. The acronym was created in memory of 9-year-old Amber Hagerman, who was kidnapped while riding her bicycle in Arlington, Texas, and then killed.

In July, an Amber Alert was issued for Wynter Cole-Smith, 2-year-old who was wearing a T-shirt with a rainbow pattern, and taken from her home in Lansing. Her body was later found in metro Detroit, and Rashad Maleek Trice, 26, has been charged with her kidnapping and slaying.

Reporter Jasmin Barmore contributed to this report.

Contact Frank Witsil: 313-222-5022 or fwitsil@freepress.com.

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