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Child reportedly forced into vehicle by stranger in Yukon neighbourhood: RCMP

PORTER CREEK, WHITEHORSE, YUKON, JUL 20 – Police continue searching for a Caucasian male suspect described by witnesses after a nine-year-old girl was abducted and found safe within hours in Porter Creek, police said.

  • Yukon RCMP spokesperson said a nine-year-old girl walking home after playing was forced into a vehicle and reported missing at 9:53 p.m. on July 20, after being abducted along Grove Street in Whitehorse’s Porter Creek neighbourhood.
  • Calling it a `rare situation`, MacLeod said police don’t know the suspect’s identity or origin and noted family searched after she missed her 9:30 p.m. Sunday curfew.
  • MacLeod said the suspect is a white man with blue eyes, medium-to-long reddish hair and red facial hair, and police said the vehicle was a smaller blue or gray SUV.
  • By 11:06 p.m. that night the child was found safe in the same neighbourhood, and MacLeod said police are investigating it as a kidnapping and will not release further details.
  • With the Major Crime Unit, Specialized Response Unit and Whitehorse detachment on the case, MacLeod asked witnesses with video footage from 8 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. on July 20 to come forward.
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Child reportedly forced into vehicle by stranger in Yukon neighbourhood: RCMP

Police investigate kidnapping after unknown man allegedly forcefully abducted nine-year-old girl near her Whitehorse home on July 20

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Yukon News broke the news in on Wednesday, July 23, 2025.
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