A mother and her two young boys were found safe Sunday after California authorities issued a statewide “Endangered Missing Advisory” for the three.
The California Highway Patrol on Saturday issued the advisory after police in Mountain View, a Bay Area suburb that’s a center for the tech industry, said she took the children, ages 9 and 4.
“Taylor Wu is the two boys’ mother and is missing along with the two boys,” Mountain View Police Capt. Scott Nelson said by email on Saturday.
On Sunday, he said by email, “All three missing persons have been located safely. We are still working with the entire family on this situation and are thankful they have all been located safely.”
It’s not clear where or how they were found.
“We do not have any further information at this time, as we wanted to provide an immediate update that they have been located,” Nelson said.
The children had last been seen in a residential area of Mountain View about 1:30 a.m. on Saturday, the CHP said in a statement. Authorities had been looking for a blue SUV the mother was believed to be driving.
Issuing an “Endangered Missing Advisory” allows the CHP to raise awareness without unnecessary alarm that may come with an Amber Alert, which indicates imminent danger for recently abducted children.
Authorities did not say the boys were in any specific danger.
The CHP singled out Santa Clara County, where Mountain View is located, and, for reasons that are unclear, Los Angeles County, in language used for the alert Saturday on social media platform X.
The boys’ father, who was not missing, was identified by police as Jialiang Wu. It’s not clear if the couple is divorced, estranged or otherwise in a disagreement over custody of the boys.
Lindsay Good contributed.