4/3/25 Missing Beaver Dam Girl Found Safe
3 April 2025 News
Update: Beaver Dam Police released the following information just before 7 am this morning:
On Wednesday, April 2, 2025, at approximately 11:40pm, the Beaver Dam Police Department was notified that deputies of Sarpy County Sheriff’s Office responded to a tip of a possible sighting near Omaha, Nebraska of Sophia Franklin, the juvenile listed in the Amber Alert posted on February 3, 2025. Law enforcement made contact with a juvenile, who was with an adult male also matching the description of the male suspect she was identified leaving with, Gary Day. Their identities were positively confirmed and as a result, the suspect, Gary Day, was taken into custody. Sophia Franklin was taken to a secure facility to await re-unification with her family.
The Beaver Dam Police Department would like to thank the Sarpy County Sheriff’s Office, as well as the numerous other law enforcement agencies that put forth the time and effort to locate Sophia. We would also like to thank the community members in multiple states for their awareness and willingness to share leads to follow to help bring Sophia safely home.
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An Amber alert issued for a pregnant 17-year-old Beaver Dam girl two months ago has been cancelled now that she has been found and the man she was traveling with has been taken into custody. Sophia Martha Franklin has been found safe and 40-year-old Gary Day of Cabot, Arkansas was taken into custody. Sophia was three months pregnant when the alert was issued on February 3rd. It was later extended to Arkansas and Missouri because law enforcement believed Franklin and Day may be traveling in that area. Authorities did not give specifics on where she was found and Day was taken into custody. The Amber Alert was cancelled at 1:42 this morning. Dodge County officials filed an arrest warrant for Day on February 4th on two counts of abduction of a child and two counts of child enticement. He was also on felony probation in Arkansas.
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