Three children have been returned to their mother after being missing for two years.The children were reported missing out of American Fork in Oct. 2022, suspected to be taken by their father to a community of Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints,

Three teenagers who went missing from American Fork just over two years ago have been found in rural Arizona near the Utah border and reunited with their mother, police said in a press release issued Friday afternoon.

Three American Fork children who were reported missing in October 2022 have been safely recovered in Fredonia, Arizona, marking the end of a nearly two-year multi-state search effort. According to American Fork Police,

The children were found in Fredonia, a town four miles from the Utah-Arizona border. Police suspect the father arranged the disappearance.

Fredonia Police Department Chief Jason Peterson received information near the of August about the children who had been reported missing since October 2022.