
Shortly after phones in Prince George’s County, Maryland, began buzzing about a SUV wanted in a suspected child abduction, a group of friends captured the moment they recognized the SUV from the AMBER Alert—and started recording. In a viral TikTok video posted by one of the friends, a gray Volkswagen SUV rolls up alongside them, and they elicit excited recognition. Deciding not to engage with the suspect (as law enforcement had instructed), the clip ends with a short view of the SUV surrounded by police vehicles farther up the road. “Thanks to a great community partnership, an alert citizen [in another vehicle] spotted the AMBER Alert car,” the Prince George’s County Police Department wrote on X. “That citizen contacted [dispatch] who relayed the locations to [us] through our interoperable radio system.” The missing girl was found safe.
