UPDATE:

SIMPSON COUNTY, Miss. (WJTV) – Forrest County deputies said they recovered a kidnapped infant Sunday morning after a Missing/Endangered Child Alert was issued.

Deputies said the six-month-old was taken from her mother while she was shopping in Walmart on Highway 49 in Magee. They said the suspect, 55-year-old James Johnson, of Gulfport, took the baby to his ex-wife’s house in Petal and asked his stepson to drive him to the coast.

Deputies said the young man’s mother called and told him the baby had been kidnapped, so he stopped at the Circle K in Brooklyn and altered the clerk, who called Forrest County deputies.

The baby was taken to a local hospital for a checkup. Johnson was booked under ‘fugitive other jurisdiction’ on a kidnapping charge out of Magee.

UPDATE:

SIMPSON COUNTY, Miss. (WJTV) – The Endangered Missing Child Alert issued for Paeince Barnes has been canceled. She has been located and is safe, according to MBI.

SIMPSON COUNTY, Miss. (WJTV) – A Missing/Endangered Child Alert has been issued for a six-month-old in Mississippi.

Agents with the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation (MBI) said Paeince Barnes, of Gulfport, was last seen on Saturday, December 23 just after 7:00 p.m. in the 1600 block of Highway 49 South in Simpson County.

Barnes may be accompanied by James Henry Johnson, 55. He is six feet four inches tall, weighs 282 pounds with black hair and brown eyes.

Agents said Barnes and Johnson are believed to be in a 2007 blue Lexus EX bearing the Mississippi tag HAZ7823.

Anyone with information on their whereabouts can contact the Magee Police Department at 601-849-2366 or 911.