The amber alert for a five-year-old eastern Missouri girl is over after she and her suspected abductor were found this afternoon.

Butler  County Missouri authorities say the girl was located and is safe while the suspect was taken into custody.

45-year-old Jeffrey D. Shelton was arrested.  Police believe he abducted the girl from her home around 6:30 Wednesday morning in Poplar Bluff.

The mother called 911 around 7:00 Wednesday morning to report Abigail missing.  Police say she was sleeping on the family’s living room couch.

A neighbor observed the girl with Shelton leaving the neighborhood in a 2001 Nissan Pathfinder around 6:30 Wednesday morning.

Shelton is a convicted sex offender.  His conviction stems from his abduction and rape of a 12-year-old girl in 1990 in Texas.

The FBI is assisting in the investigation.