BURLINGTON, N.C. -- Burlington police issued an AMBER Alert Tuesday morning for a four-month-old girl only to cancel it a short time later.

  • Incident started in Burlington around 12:30 a.m. Tuesday.
  • Ruben Hernandez is now in custody.
  • Child was unharmed.

The incident started with a domestic call just after midnight in the 500 block of South Ireland Street where officers said 18-year-old Ruben Hernandez assaulted the child's mother and took the couple's daughter, Eliana Serrato.

Investigators were able to track Hernandez to a home in Gibsonville where he was taken into custody and the girl was recovered unharmed.

Hernandez is now in the Alamance County Jail.

He’s charged with assault on a female, assault in the presence of a minor and misdemeanor child abuse.

The AMBER Alert was canceled around 5:30 a.m.

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