An Amber Alert for two McKinney sisters is canceled after they were both found safe Sunday night, McKinney Police say.
The two sisters were abducted Thursday night, police said, and for the next three days were the subject of a statewide Amber Alert. McKinney Police said Sunday night that the girls had been located and their grandmother was in custody.
Jame Burns, 60, was arrested in Richardson Sunday and now faces two felony counts of kidnapping in addition to previous charges of child endangerment and possession of a controlled substance. Jame Burns is being hed on bonds totaling $33,000, though her bail amount on the kidnapping charges has not yet been set. It's also not immediately clear if she has obtained an attorney.
McKinney Police said Friday morning that CPS, which has temporary custody of the children, was overseeing the girls' visit with their non-custodial father at a CiCi's Pizza restaurant near Central Expressway and Virginia Parkway Thursday afternoon when they were taken just before 6 p.m.
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McKinney Police Public Information Officer Carla Marion Reeves said during a news conference Friday morning that the girls were believed to have been taken by their paternal grandmother, 60-year-old Jame Burns, and that the girls' father, 34-year-old Justin Burns, was involved in their abduction.
Records obtained by NBC 5 show Jame Burns was free on bonds totaling $3,000 after being accused in 2021 of criminal negligence, abandoning/endangering a child and possession of a controlled substance of less than one gram. She was scheduled to appear Friday, Jan. 20, for a plea deal on the child endangerment case but did not show up, officials said.
NBC 5 has also learned Jame Burns was accused of burglary of a home in 2005 and was accused of fraud in Florida.
Justin Burns, Reeves said, has been charged with two felony counts of kidnapping and is being held in the Collin County Jail on bonds totaling $100,000. An attorney for Justin Burns was not listed.
TEXAS STATEWIDE ALERT PROGRAMS
Eight kinds of alerts can be issued for missing or endangered people in Texas. Below are links to articles with more information about each type of alert.
- Active Shooter Alert
- AMBER Alert & Athena Alert
- Blue Alert
- Silver Alert
- CLEAR Alert
- Camo Alert (no longer operational)
- Endangered Missing Person Alert
- Power Outage Alert
