UPDATE : November 18 at 7:00 p.m.

The Washington State Patrol announced the children were located in Grays Harbor and the alert is cancelled.

MONTESANO, Wash. - Washington State Patrol issued an Amber Alert for two girls, aged 8 and 12, taken from the Montesano area on Tuesday morning.

WSP said that Audrey Gleave, 8, and Vanessa Gleave, 12, were last seen leaving the area of West Broadway Avenue in Montesano at around 6:00 a.m. in a car with their mother.

Carolyn Gleave, the girls' mother, was identified by WSP as the suspect. She drives a 2014 black Subaru Forester with the Washington license plate AZB4600.

Carolyn is described as being 5-foot-8-inches and 120 pounds.

"Carolyn is in an escalated state of crisis and may be heading to Deer Park in Spokane, Arizona, Utah, or Cali," WS

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