RCMP say they have made an arrest BUT the girl has not been found and the search continues
in Alberta and BC.

A 22-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the abduction of a young girl but the whereabouts of the toddler is still unknown.

Hailey Dunbar-Blanchette, 2, was taken from a home in the small town of Blairmore, Alta., at around 3:30 a.m. Monday.

But the disappearance wasn’t discovered until officers were called to the residence nearly eight hours later, when someone reported the little girl’s father, 27-year-old Terry Blanchette, was dead.

Her abduction triggered an Amber Alert in Alberta, which was expanded several hours later to include British Columbia, Saskatchewan and south of the border in Montana.

A day after Hailey’s father was found dead, Alberta RCMP announced a man in Blairmore was arrested in connection with the case.

“To my knowledge that person has been arrested in association (with) both the homicide and the disappearance of Hailey,” RCMP Superintendent Tony Hamori said at a news conference.

Hamori said the search to find Hailey had intensified substantially.