By Sheena Roszell

AMBER ALERT charges

Woman to remain in custody after Fox Creek AMBER Alert, man released

Jun 4, 2019 | 10:14 AM

A woman will remain in custody after an AMBER Alert out of Fox Creek Saturday.

A man who was also charged has been released from custody.

Charmaine Annette Darnel, who is 42 and D’artangan Dirk Pool, who is 23 are accused of abducting three children from the northern Alberta community.

RCMP say a four-year-old girl, a three-year-old boy and a nine-month-old baby were taken from a home in Fox Creek around 1:30 a.m. last Saturday.

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An Amber Alert was issued shortly before 5 a.m. but it was called off about three hours later when the children were found unharmed near Sylvan Lake.

Darnel appeared in Grande Prairie Provincial court Monday and remains in custody on three charges of abduction of a person under 14, along with counts of break and enter, assault and uttering threats.

Pool is charged with three counts of abduction, assault forcible confinement, uttering threats, disguise with intent to commit offence and break and enter.

He was released from police custody and is scheduled to appear in court in Fox Creek on June 24.

w/files from the Canadian Press