OSWEGATCHIE, N.Y. (AP) - Police have received "numerous leads" concerning two Amish girls abducted at a roadside stand in northern New York, where searchers scoured the countryside near the Canadian border for the missing children, authorities said Thursday.
Deputies, state troopers, forest rangers and U.S. Border Patrol agents were part of the ongoing search for 7-year-old Delila Miller and 12-year-old Fannie Miller, St. Lawrence County Sheriff Kevin Wells said.
Officials issued an Amber Alert for the two girls after they were abducted around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the rural town of Oswegatchie, on the border 150 miles northwest of Albany.
The girls went to wait on a customer at the family's roadside stand, officials said. A witness saw a passenger in a vehicle put something into the back seat, and when the vehicle drove off the children were gone, police said.
Both girls were wearing dark blue dresses with blue aprons and black bonnets. Because the Amish tend to shun modern technology, police had no photographs of the girls, Wells said.
Wells said the local Amish community was helping law enforcement by getting the word out despite a culture that avoids modern conveniences.
"You'd be surprised how quick word spreads," Wells said.
The sheriff said police are looking for a white four-door sedan a witness reported seeing at the farm stand when the girls disappeared.