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Amber Alert update: Arrest made

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VENICE (CNS) – A mother who allegedly abducted her 6-year-old son from
his elementary school in Venice this morning was arrested and the boy rescued
this evening after a short police chase.
Nisha Burnett, who does not have legal custody of her son, was arrested
about 7:30 p.m. after she got out of her car and ran with the boy in her arms
into a Harley Davidson shop in the 4100 block of Lincoln Boulevard, according
to reports from the scene.
Officers could be seen taking the boy, West Burnett, from the shop after
the woman was taken into custody.
West, who has lived with an aunt for the past year, had last been seen
about 8:35 a.m. at Coeur D’ Alene Avenue Elementary School in the 800 block of
Coeur D’ Alene Avenue, according to a statement released by the Los Angeles
Police Department.
An Amber Alert was issued for the boy, who police said was taken from
school in his mother’s gold 2004 BMW 530i.
Before she was arrested, Burnett, with her son seated in the front seat
beside her, called out from the window of her car to tell an ABC7 news crew
that she did not kidnap the boy.