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UPDATE: Amber Alert Canceled After Abducted Central Illinois Infant Found

UPDATE 3:30 PM: The Amber Alert was canceled after authorities found Noah DelHotal safe.

ORIGINAL: A statewide Amber Alert was issued by authorities Sunday afternoon after a non-custodial father abducted a two-month old infant.

The Putnam County Sheriff's Office said Kevin DelHotal, 32, took his two-month-old infant, Noah, from his mother's house in McNabb, about an hour north of Peoria around 7 a.m. Sunday.,

DelHotal took Noah in a white 2001 Chevrolet Trailblazer, license plate Z529020.

Kevin DelHotal is 6'4 and weights 275 lbs. He has brown hair, blue eyes, and was last seen wearing a blue "Illinois" sweatshirt and blue jeans.

Anyone with information on their whereabouts is asked to call 911.

Tim was the News Director at WCBU Peoria Public Radio. He left the station in 2025.