Amber alert issued for 12-year-old girl

An Amber Alert has been issued for Brittany Mae Smith. She is 5 feet tall, 100 pounds with straight brown hair and brown eyes. She was abducted from her Salem, Va., home on Dec. 2 and may be with Jeffrey Scott Easley, 32.

The Virginia Amber Alert website reports that Easley is a white male, 5 feet 11 inches tall, 265 pounds. He has brown hair and hazel eyes. They may be traveling in a 2005 silver Dodge Neon, Virginia license number XKF-2365.

Anyone with information about this case should contact the Roanoke County Police Department at 540-777-8641 or Virginia State Police at 800-822-4453.

The following AP story offers some details:

Search continues for missing Virginia girl

ROANOKE, Va. (AP) -- A police chief says he's received no new leads in the search for a 12-year-old Roanoke County girl believed to be with her slain mother's live-in boyfriend.

Roanoke County Police Chief Ray Lavinder tolds CBS's "The Early Show" on Wednesday that police didn't receive information overnight that would be helpful in locating Brittany Mae Smith.

Authorities found the body of Brittany's 41-year-old mother, Tina Smith, at her home in Salem on Monday. An Amber Alert was then issued for Brittany and police believe she may be with 32-year-old Jeffrey Scott Easley.

Easley's mother, Sallie Martin of Franklin County, pleaded Tuesday for her son to come forward.

WDBJ-TV reports Easley dropped out of high school in 1996 in Ayden, N.C., about 256 miles southeast of Roanoke.