Headline Roundup • April 3rd, 2024
Missing 7-Year-Old Georgia Girl Found in Puerto Rico
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A missing 7-year-old girl from Georgia was found in Puerto Rico, according to the FBI.
Stella Brannen Salter had been missing for over a week as the Lyons Police looked for her.
They teamed up with FBI Atlanta and law enforcement in Puerto Rico where Stella and her non-custodial mother were discovered in a store Saturday afternoon.
Wendy Salter was charged with interference with child custody. She'll go through extradition proceedings before she's brought back to Georgia.
The child has since been reunited with her father.

Lyons Police Department
A missing 7-year-old Georgia girl has been found in Puerto Rico, more than a week after she was allegedly snatched by her mother, who did not have custody rights.
Stella Brennan Salter had been missing since March 29, when she and her mom, children’s book author Wendy Salter, 46, were last seen in Metter, about 65 miles from Savannah.
They were both found about noon Saturday at a store in Puerto Rico, according to the FBI office in Atlanta.
The mom faces up to five years behind bars after she...
A seven-year-old girl who disappeared with her mother in Georgia has been found nine days later in Puerto Rico.
Stella Brannen Salter and her mother Wendy Salter, 46, were last seen in Lyons, Georgia, on March 29 and left town after that.
They were believed to be traveling in a 2007 gold Volvo C70 with Georgia tag GEE777.
She was arrested by local police at a shop on the Caribbean island about 12pm on Saturday and taken to Bayamón Correctional Complex.
Stella was found in a nearby hotel room where they were staying but...
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