Police: Miss. woman arrested in abduction of 2 Texas girls

DALLAS — A Mississippi woman was in custody Saturday after she traveled to Texas and abducted two girls from their home, authorities said. Crystal Gaylene Edwards, 33, was being held in the Rankin County, Miss., jail on two counts of kidnapping and another count of sale of narcotics.

Edwards was acquainted with the girls’ family and appeared Friday at their home northeast of Dallas, according to police. Authorities didn’t specify how the girls, ages 8 and 11, are related.

Police in Josephine, 30 miles northeast of Dallas, said Edwards “lured” the girls from the home.

Police in Texas, working with the U.S. Marshals Service and officers in Edwards’ hometown of Pearl, Miss., tracked Edwards and the girls to Jackson, where she was apprehended later Friday.