Police in Idaho arrested a woman accused of abducting her 19-month-old granddaughter. However, the child was not found with the woman and an AMBER Alert for the child remained in effect.

The national alert for the child was issued early Monday morning after the grandmother reportedly took the child, police said. Acacia Patience Bishop was last seen at 6 p.m. Sunday with her grandmother, Kelley Jean Lodmell, 38.

Officials said the girl was in "imminent danger."

Lodmell, described by authorities as a transient and paranoid schizophrenic, was arrested in Idaho Falls, Idaho, Monday afternoon. But the whereabouts of Acacia are unknown, said Salt Lake County Sheriff's Department spokeswoman Peggy Faulkner.

Lodmell's car was also recovered, Faulkner said. She did not have any other information.

The nationwide AMBER Alert was activated at 4:40 a.m. Monday.

The child, who is 2-feet, 6-inches tall and 35 pounds, was last wearing a pink sundress with white sunflowers. She has reddish-blonde hair and blue eyes. The child walks, says one-syllable words and responds to her name, said the child's mother, Casey Lodmell.

"I'd like both of them to come home safely," Casey Lodmell said Monday afternoon before her mother was arrested.

She said then she doubted her mother would intentionally hurt the child, but is worried that her mother may not be mentally capable of taking care of the toddler.

Her mother had stopped taking medication for her illness, she said.

Last year, Kelley Lodmell took Acacia for a half-hour before relatives found them, Faulkner said. Police were not called until after the two were located.

Kelley Lodmell had wanted the girl "for herself," Casey Lodmell said of the incident a year ago. Since that time, Acacia has spent little time with her grandmother.

Acacia was being watched Sunday evening by her great-grandparents in Salt Lake County while her parents attended a wedding rehearsal dinner. Kelley Lodmell, who had stopped by the home, and the girl disappeared as the great-grandmother briefly turned her attention away, Faulkner said.

"It was like five seconds, they were gone," said Linda Lodmell, Kelley's mother and Acacia's great-grandmother.

Kelley Lodmell pleaded guilty to a 1999 charge of aggravated assault of a police officer. She has also been charged with possession of marijuana and drunken driving, Faulkner said.

Although the family contacted police immediately, authorities did not initially issue the AMBER Alert because it was considered a domestic dispute, Faulkner said. However, after Kelley Lodmell's history was taken into account, the case was upgraded and the alert was issued.

Monday was the fourth time Utah officials have used the public alert system for a missing child.

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The first was on June 5, when Elizabeth Smart was abducted from her Salt Lake City bedroom. She was found walking in Sandy on March 12 with her two alleged abductors.

The second was Jan. 29, when 3-month-old Nicholas Tripplett was taken from the ZCMI mall food court. He was found the next day, five hours after the alert went out. Charges against two people in that case were later dropped.

An alert was issued May 7 for 11-year-old Cindy Jeannette Bruno, from St. Cloud, Minn. A Utah Highway Patrol trooper stopped the suspect when he recognized the man's van from the alert's description. Antonio P. Andrade, 21, is charged with the girl's abduction.

Alerts are named after Amber Hagerman, a 9-year-old girl abducted and murdered in Texas in 1996. Legislation creating a national alert system was signed last month.

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