Amber alert issued for 2-year-old boy in Sampson County, N.C.

SAMPSON COUNTY, N.C., Oct. 3 (UPI) -- A 2-year-old boy was abducted in Sampson County, N.C., triggering an Amber Alert Friday morning.

Jeremiah Hughes was last seen wearing a white long-sleeve shirt with brown sleeves and a picture of a pirate in front and blue swimming shorts.

He is approximately 3 feet tall, weighs 60 pounds, has brown hair and hazel eyes.

The Department of Public Safety said it believes Jeremiah may have been taken by a neighbor, Alison Naylor Robinson. Robinson is a 39-year-old white female, 5-foot-8, weighing 225 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes.

She is driving a Brown 2001 Buick Century with a South Carolina license tag number KHX-728.

They were last seen in Sampson County, and are possibly headed toward Beverley Street in Pickens County or Marietta, Ga.

Anyone with information should call the Sampson County Sheriff at (910) 592-4141, (910) 260-0170, or dial 911.