Amber alert issued in Mexico as search for missing teen intensifies

Authorities are searching for missing 16-year-old Amy Yu south of the border.
2:19 | 03/17/18

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Transcript for Amber alert issued in Mexico as search for missing teen intensifies
The search for missing teenager which is now the search expanding south of the border Mexican authorities have issued an AMBER Alert for sixteen year old Amy you and the man who signed her out of school almost two weeks ago. ABC's aerial Russia joins us with more in studio aerial good morning good morning calling Dan any he was last seen when she was checked out of class by a man she claimed was her stepfather. Now after nearly two weeks on the run authorities may have Trace the pair across the border US marshals at Homeland Security joining the hunt to bring them home. This morning mother's desperately. Emmy I'm sure you'll. Kate you're kind of backed. The mystery deepening about why her daughter's sixteen year old Amy you allegedly left the country with 45 year old family friend Kevin Esther Lee all of. Mays received thus far leads investigators to believe that Amy you left Allentown willingly. With Kevin asteroid. The search for the pair now stretching into Mexico as new clues emerge about their time on the run. You Esther Lee vanishing march that use mother reporting her a run away. Officials say that same day Esther Lee and a teen flew on one way tickets from Philadelphia to Cancun. On Thursday ten days after argues disappear at an AMBER Alert issued in Mexico. Authorities now fear you may be in danger police say that you may have been romantically involved for months before taking off. In the past Esther early signings you out of school ten tonight after she allegedly changed school documents to identify him as her stepfather. Police reports show when Hughes mother discovered Esther Lee signed her daughter out of class on February 9 she called authorities. On February 15 westerly was ordered to stay away from the teen's home. There -- is already knowledge of this relationship thinking clearly friction. Between her mother and the guy that she's left with. Now use family pray for her safe return to travel. Should tell him. And Esther Lee is charged with felony interference with the custody of children because you is under the age of eighteen his wife told police. That he withdrew 4000 dollars from their account the morning. The two disappear. This agony of her family. In the Asia want a little girl to come home aerial thank the ground.

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