HALEY WILLETT - 13 yo - Owensboro KY

An Amber Alert in Kentucky Saturday afternoon has authorities in Maine on the lookout.

The Amber Alert was done because authorities say a 13 year old girl was taken and may be headed to Maine, New York, or Florida.

Haley Willett was last seen in Owensboro, Kentucky at about 4:30
saturday morning. She is described as five feet five inches tall and
102 pounds, with blonde hair and blue eyes. She was last seen wearing
jean shorts and a white tank top.

Authorities say Haley received a text message from a man identified as 43 year old Archie Whalen.

He is described as about six feet tall, 200 pounds with brown hair and hazel eyes. He may have a mustache.

It is not know if the two previously knew each other.

They are thought to be traveling in a red Chevy Silverado pick up with Maine license plates 8071 RF.

If you have any information authorities are asking you to call (270)-685-8544.

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Police believe the victim of a kidnapping in Kentucky could be headed to Maine.
An Amber Alert was issued Saturday for 13-year old Haley Willett of
Owensboro, Kentucky. She has blonde hair, is about 5 foot 5 inches
tall, and weighs just over 100 pounds. Police say the suspect, 43-year
old Archie Whalen, sent Willett a text message two hours before the
Amber Alert was issued.
Police traced a vehicle registered to Whalen to Hancock, Maine. They
found that vehicle at a home Saturday. When they questioned the woman
in the home, police said she told them she was Whalen's sister, and the
car belonged to her.
She said that she hadn't seen Whalen since Friday. Police also said Whalen could be headed to Florida or New York City.

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A Kentucky teenager is missing from her home and police fear she's with a much older man who has been text messaging her.

Police say 13-year-old Haley Willett got a text message from a suspect who is 30 years older than her At 2:40 Saturday morning.

We have learned from her family this man developed a crush
on the girl when she visited Maine. They say he have followed her to
her home in Owensboro.

She was last seen in her home at 4:30 Saturday morning.

Haley has blonde hair and blue eyes. She's five feet, five inches tall and weighs about a hundred pounds.

She was last seen in blue jean shorts and a white tank
top. The suspect in this case is 43 -year-old Archie Whalen. He has
brown hair, hazel eyes and is six feet tall, weighing about two hundred
pounds.

Police believe the two are in a Red Chevy
Silverado similar to the one you see here with a camper on the back. It
has a Maine license plate, number 8017RF.

Police think the two could be headed any one of three places: Florida, New York City or Hancock, Maine.

They say Haley could be in danger and they believe Whalen
is armed and dangerous. If you see the pair do not approach them but
call 911 immediately.

The Breckenridge Sheriff's Office in Kentucky has confirmed Archie
Whalen and Haley Willett were at Hardinsburg McDonald's just after
4:00 Saturday morning. A witness said Whalen was irritable and asked for directions to Ohio and Indiana. They said the girl, Haley Willett, appeared to be in a good mood. Saturday night, Haley's mom said her daughter is in danger, and she's asking you for help. "I
just want to say 'Haley, I love you. I wish you would just hurry up and
come back home please,'" Haley's mother Tammy Ward said. Tammy Ward is living every mothers worst nightmare. Her 13-year-old daughter Haley Willett is missing. "I
woke up this morning and she was gone," Ward said. "I don't know what
happened to her. I've contacted the sheriff, I've contacted all of the
friends, nobody's seen her, nobody's heard from her." Ward said she has a clue who took her. His name is Archie Whalen, 43. "When I
woke up this morning I found a text on the phone and, like I said, it
had a Maine area code and she doesn't know anyone else in Maine," Ward
said. "It's only him." Ward said she knows Whalen. Whalen was a friend of her boyfriend's, and let them stay at his home during a recent visit to Maine. Almost immediately she could tell Whalen liked her daughter more than he should. "He started hitting on her and saying things like he wanted to marry her," Ward said. Eventually, things got out of hand. Ward decided to leave, but her daughter still couldn't forget about Whalen. She said they continued their relationship behind her back. "He's
been texting her and instant messaging her, so I called the sheriff up
there in Maine to let them know this needs to stop," Ward said. That was two days ago. Saturday night, she's missing, and her mom said she's worried for her safety. "He
has a criminal record background," Wade said. "As far as hurting
children and things like that, I am not for sure, but when he was
telling my daughter these things, I felt like that was a situation that
we would need to leave immediately and get her away from him, but now I
feel like he has come down to get her. I haven't seen her. I just hope
she's okay." The Daviess County Sheriff's Office is saying they've updated the vehicle Whalen and Willett were last seen in. The public should now be on the lookout for a red Ford Explorer with a Maine license plate.

A convicted sex offender accused of abducting a 13-year-old girl was in court Monday for an extradition hearing. During
that hearing in Door County Court, 43-year-old Archie Whalen waived
extradition back to Kentucky. He indicated in court he wanted to get
back to address the charges. Police say Haley Willett was abducted Saturday by Whalen, an acquaintance of her family. In court Monday, we learned Willett went willingly with Whalen and that she had been having problems with her mother at home. Police arrested Whalen Sunday after spotting his vehicle in the parking lot of the AmericInn in Sturgeon Bay. Willett was also in the vehicle, police say she was unharmed. She will be reunited with her family soon. Police
say Whalen and Willett were in the Sturgeon Bay area Saturday evening.
If you did see them you asked to call the department at (920) 746-2400.

A man from coastal Maine has been arrested in Wisconsin after allegedly kidnapping a girl from her home in Kentucky.


Archie Murphy Whalen, 43, was found with the 13-year-old girl, who
also has ties to Maine, in the parking lot of a hotel in Sturgeon Bay,
Wis., around 4:30 a.m. Sunday, according to officials. Whalen is
accused of taking the girl from her home in Owensboro, Ky., on Saturday
morning.

Dan Trelka, chief of police in Sturgeon Bay, said Monday morning
that a nationwide Amber Alert drew the kidnapping case to his
department’s attention. Whalen’s red Ford Explorer, which has Maine
license plates, had been spotted Saturday afternoon headed north on
Interstate 43 in Wisconsin. When Sturgeon Bay police talked to the FBI
about the case, federal officials told them Whalen had a sister who
lived in Sturgeon Bay, Trelka said.Local police were looking for
the truck when they spotted it driving into a local motel parking lot
early Sunday morning, the chief said. Whalen and the girl were in the
truck at the time.

“He was just pulling into the parking lot when they sprang on him,” Trelka said.

Whalen has ties to Hancock County in Maine, but according to Trelka,
is listed on his driver’s license as a resident of Bristol, Maine, in
Lincoln County.

Trelka said the girl had not been harmed while traveling with
Whalen. The Bangor Daily News is not printing her name because she is a
juvenile and an apparent crime victim. Medical personnel have seen her,
and she is being kept at a shelter in the area until her mother arrives
from Kentucky, Trelka said.

Whalen, who is being held at a jail in Sturgeon Bay, was expected to
appear in a courtroom there Monday afternoon as the FBI and law
enforcement officials in Kentucky and Wisconsin sorted out the legal
aspects of how and where he will be charged, according to the police
chief. Kentucky officials have charged him with kidnapping.

“He’s probably going to be prosecuted federally,” Trelka said.

Sturgeon Bay is on Door Peninsula, which sticks into Lake Michigan
northeast of Green Bay. Owensboro is located on the Ohio River, just
south of Pueblo, Ind.

According to press reports, police in Kentucky said the girl’s
family had recently moved to the state from Maine, where Whalen had
been an acquaintance of the family.

It was not clear Monday where the girl’s family may have lived in
Maine. Bill Webster, superintendent of RSU 24 in Ellsworth, said Friday
that state law prevented him from confirming whether the girl may have
attended any of the unit’s schools during the 2008-09 academic year.

Trooper Dan Ryan of the Maine State Police said Monday that on
Saturday he assisted officials with the Daviess County Sheriff’s
Department in Kentucky in trying to find Whalen. Whalen, who has
sisters who live in Hancock and Damariscotta, he said, had last been
seen in the Ellsworth area on Friday, Sept. 25.

Law enforcement officials in Kentucky have said that Whalen has a
criminal history that includes convictions in New York for rape,
burglary and second-degree assault.

Whalen is not listed as a registered sex offender either in New York
or in Maine, according to sex offender registry officials in those
states. Whalen may not have been required to register in either state
if he was convicted and then completed his sentence before Jan. 21,
1996, an official with New York’s Division of Criminal Justice Services
said Monday.

According to media reports, Whalen became a suspect after he and the
girl were recorded by a video camera at a McDonald’s in Hardinsburg,
Ky., on Saturday. The girl’s mother subsequently recognized Whalen from
the video, news reports indicated.

Whalen previously has faced criminal charges in Penobscot and
Hancock counties, according to court records. He was indicted in
Penobscot County in August 1990 on burglary and theft charges. In 2008,
he faced a charge in Ellsworth District Court of operating a motor
vehicle while his license was suspended or revoked, but the charge
later was dismissed, court records indicate.

A Maine man has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of
transporting a minor across state lines with the intent to engage in
criminal sexual activity.Archie M. Whalen, 43, was arrested in Wisconsin last month.
An Amber Alert was issued Sept. 26 after Haley Willett disappeared from her Owensboro, Ky., home.Willett's
mother believed she may have been with Whalen, a family acquaintance
who, according to investigators, texted Haley with messages saying "I
love you" and "I want to marry you" the same morning she disappeared.Authorities were able to track the two down after Whalen's Ford Explorer was seen in Sheboygan, Wis.Knowing
his sister lived in Sturgeon Bay, officers there were keeping a close
look out and spotted Whalen and the girl pulling into to hotel parking
lot.This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a
nationwide initiative designed to protect children from online
exploitation and abuse.Whalen is scheduled to appear in court Oct. 22.

Federal appeals court set to hear case of Maine man sentenced to 30 years in prison



THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  
July 21, 2014 - 10:58 am EDT



OWENSBORO, Kentucky — A federal appeals court is set to hear the case of a Maine resident serving 30 years in prison for transporting a 13-year-old Owensboro girl across state lines to engage in sexual activity.

The U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati has scheduled arguments for Aug. 5 in the case of 47-year-old Archie Whalen of Hancock County, Maine.

A jury in Kentucky convicted Whalen in 2012 of taking the girl in 2009 from her home in Owensboro to Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. The girl was found a day after an Amber Alert was issued.

Officials said Whalen met the girl when she and her mother lived briefly in Maine.

Whalen is currently being held in a federal prison in Marion, Illinois. His projected release date is Nov. 15, 2035.


http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/27f2aa9a82fd4ffbab1e81b33670e610/KY--Amber-Alert-Appeal

Appeals court rejects Amber Alert case that ended in Wis.

Maine man sentenced to 30 years for taking teen from Kentucky

Published On: Sep 01 2014 12:49:54 PM CDT


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OWENSBORO, Ky. -
A federal appeals court has upheld the conviction and prison sentence of a 47-year-old Maine resident for transporting a 13-year-old Owensboro, Kentucky girl across state lines to engage in sexual activity.


The U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday let stand the 30-year sentence for Archie M. Whalen of Hancock County, Maine.

A jury convicted Whalen on July 26, 2012 of taking the girl in 2009 from her home in western Kentucky to Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. The girl was found a day after an Amber Alert was issued.

Officials said Whalen met the girl when she and her mother lived briefly in Maine.
Whalen is currently serving his sentence at United States Penitentiary Marion in southern Illinois.



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