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Tom Begaye, 27,
will appear before U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul Briones in
Farmington on Wednesday, two days after Ashlynne Mike and her
9-year-old brother were abducted, according to Federal Bureau of
Investigation spokesman Frank Fisher and a statement released by
the Navajo Nation.
The children were kidnapped after school near the community of
San Juan, New Mexico by a man driving a van who offered them a
ride, authorities said.
The boy, Ian Mike, was found walking along a highway around 7:15
p.m. and taken to the police department in Shiprock, the largest
town on the Navajo Nation. He reported the man had taken his
sister, Fisher and the Navajo Nation said.
The boy told the police the driver took them toward the Shiprock
pinnacle - a rock hill that is a landmark on the Navajo Nation -
hit a dead end and released the boy, telling him to go home, the
Navajo Nation said.
The girl's body was discovered on Tuesday morning, less than 8
miles (13 km) south of the landmark, Fisher said.
Dozens of law enforcement officers took part in the search for
the girl, Fisher said.
(Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis in Los Angeles and Brendan
O'Brien in Milwaukee; Additional reporting by David Schwartz in
Phoenix and Keith Coffman in Denver; Editing by Frances Kerry
and Clarence Fernandez)
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