Update — Sep. 4, 2021: This story has been updated after police lifted the Amber Alert.
The search for a missing toddler continues in Quebec on Wednesday after an Amber Alert was issued Tuesday evening in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region for three-year-old Jake Côté.
In a Twitter post, the Sûreté du Québec (SQ) said the toddler was allegedly kidnapped in Sainte-Paule at 1 p.m. on Tuesday by a 36-year-old suspect.
The Amber Alert was expanded to the entire province on Wednesday afternoon. The New Brunswick RCMP has also issued an alert to parts of that province including, Madawaska, Resitgouche and Gloucester.
The SQ is warning that the suspect may be armed and shouldn’t be approached. Anyone with information is being asked to call 911.
Wednesday evening, the SQ provided an update on the descriptions of both the child and the suspect.
They say the boy was last seen wearing dark blue jeans, beige boots and a blue T-shirt with silver lines on the sleeve and on the bottom hem. The number 6 or 9 appears on the T-shirt in a blue camo pattern. The child weighs 30 pounds and his hair is shaved.
Police say the suspect is five-feet-seven-inches tall, weighs 180 pounds and has brown hair and blue eyes. He was wearing a dark sweater with a black logo and black “army-style” pants.
On Wednesday, police said they had located a grey all-terrain vehicle they had been searching for in the Sainte-Paule area.
Police said the suspect and the child may be travelling by foot or in a vehicle.
The SQ is asking members of the public to stay away from the Sainte-Paule area so as to not impede the work of officers. The SQ says there is a risk they could interfere with searches by confusing sniffer dogs and getting lost themselves.
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