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Aung set for extradition
Nadia Cole pictured with Aaron Aung.
COLFAX - Over the weekend, authorities found the missing two-year-old, her father and his fiancée at a roadside checkpoint near Santa Ana, Mexico.
Seraya Aung Harmon, 2, was reportedly not returned by her father, Aaron Aung, 21, of Moscow, Idaho, to her mother's custody in Pullman on June 3.
Aaron's fiancée, Nadia Cole, 21, of Port Angeles, Wash., had been reported missing to the Port of Seattle Police Department at the end of May.
She was suspected to be traveling with Aaron and Seraya, whose locations were unknown.
Authorities in Mexico detained Aaron Aung, Seraya Aung Harmon, and Nadia Cole, and handed them over to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
According to a press release from the Pullman Police Department, the FBI coordinated with the National Institute of Migration, Mexican State Police, the Nogales Police Department, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Aaron Aung is currently held in the Santa Cruz County Detention Center in Nogales, Arizona, awaiting extradition to Whitman County on an outstanding warrant for Custodial Interference in the First Degree.
Cole was subsequently deported back to the United States.
Seraya has been in the care of Arizona Child Protective Services.
Detectives with the Pullman and Moscow Police Departments have been working with FBI Seattle office since early June to locate Seraya and reunite her with her mother.
Olivia Harnack is a Journalist at the Whitman County Gazette. Olivia is enrolled at University of Idaho and is majoring in digital film studies. She serves in the United States Army National Guard and is proud to serve Whitman County.
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