Amber Alert Issued for Brothers Abducted from Carrollwood Area

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is looking for help from residents across Florida to locate two little boys who were abducted from their grandmother’s Lake Magdalene home in the Tampa area in the early morning hours April 3. Patch is posting this information to 21 of our Tampa Bay area sites in order to help spread the word.

An Amber Alert has been issued across the state to find Cole and Chase Hakken, 4 and 2 respectively.

Cole is described as being 3 feet, 9 inches in height and weighs about 44 pounds. He has brown eyes and hair. Chase is 3 feet tall, weighs 33 pounds and also has brown hair and eyes.

For more information about the case, read this story on Carrollwood-Northdale Patch.

Hillsborough County Sheriff’s deputies say the boys were forcibly taken by their father, Joshua Hakken, 35, from their grandmother’s home around 6:30 a.m. Wednesday. The children’s mother, Sharyn Hakken, 34, is also believed to be with them.

Joshua Hakken is described as being about 5 feet, 9 inches tall and weighs about 175 pounds. He has brown hair and eyes. Sharyn Hakken is 5-foot 4-inches tall and weighs an estimated 150 pounds. She has brown hair and hazel eyes.

The family might be traveling in a 2006, black GMC Sierra with Florida tag number U95KT. Anyone with information about the children is asked to call 911 or the Hillsborough Sheriff’s Office at 813-247-8200.

Hillsborough County has classified the couple as “armed and dangerous." For more information about the case, read this story on Carrollwood-Northdale Patch.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement only issues Amber Alerts in rare cases. A case must meet certain criteria that include a concern on the part of law enforcement that a child’s life is in danger. These alerts are not issued for family abductions normally “unless investigation determines child's life is in immediate danger,” a release from the agency stated.