A Stafford County woman who abducted her four children in June 2019 was
arrested early Wednesday morning in Indiana with the assistance of a U.S. Marshals Service Task Force.
On February 12, 2020, at approximately 2:30 a.m., detectives with the Stafford County Sheriff’s Office and members of the U.S. Marshals Service located Melody Bannister, 34, of Stafford and her four children in a vehicle at a Speedway gas station in Plainfield, Indiana.
The arrest followed a five-month-long joint investigation and a nationwide search for Bannister and the children. The children have been identified as Genevieve Bannister, 13; Janelle Bannister, 12; Vivienne Bannister, 11; and Peter Bannister, 7.
The children were found safe in the vehicle and were turned over to the Department of Child Services.
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