Three Sisters Found Safe After Alleged Abduction

BIRMINGHAM, AL - Three girls - five-year-old twins and their two-year-old sister -are safe following an alleged abduction by their non-custodial mother Friday morning.

The mother, 27-year-old, Derick Irisha Brown, does not have custodial rights. Jefferson County Sheriff's detectives said she went to a home in the 1900 block of Colonial Cove and took the children at gunpoint just before 7 a.m. Friday morning.

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Just before 2 p.m., detectives developed information that Brown was with the children at a hotel in Fairfield. A deputy located her there in a vehicle and she fled. After a brief pursuit she struck a Sheriff’s vehicle and stopped at Court I and 40th Street in Ensley. No one was injured.

The children were found safe and unharmed in the vehicle. Brown was taken into custody and transported to the Jefferson County Jail to await formal charges.

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