The amber alert was extended to three states, Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas, on Saturday afternoon: two girls had been kidnapped in the small town of Leavenworth, north of Kansas City, from a house where authorities also found two others Dead children.
The intense search for the main suspect, the girls' father, extended to the Oklahoma border with Texas.
There, on the edge of the border, the authorities managed to stop his vehicle.
In the car, the little ones, Nora Jackson, 7, and Aven Jackson, 3, were safe.
The man, Donny Jackson, 40, was arrested and charged with kidnapping.
Its connection to the double homicide of the children killed in the house is still unclear.
Investigators have not provided further details on the circumstances of the double homicide.
Leavenworth County authorities only indicated during a news conference Saturday that the boys were believed to be 11 and 14 years old and were brothers of the abducted girls.
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County sheriff deputies found the children in the home at noon Saturday after a 911 call from someone who discovered the scene of the homicide.
It is unknown when the double murder or kidnapping occurred.
Less than an hour before the crime was discovered, Jackson was pulled over by a traffic control, with the two girls in the back seat, in Kansas, near the Oklahoma border.
But it was only a routine inspection.
The alert had not yet reached the agents.
Jackson continued his journey until another officer spotted his car, a Honda Accord, near the state border with Texas and notified authorities.
An Oklahoma state highway patrol and Beckham County police finally pulled him over.
The two girls were saved, according to the NBC-affiliated KSHB-TV.
With information from NBC News and AP
