Oklahoma AMBER Alert says father of missing 4-year-old has parental-kidnapping warrant

Oklahoma's AMBER Alert dated Oct. 14 asks the public to help find Andres "Harry" Furley, 4. According to the alert from the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety, his father, Caleb Furley, 25, has a parental-kidnapping warrant.

The alert lists a silver 2012 Dodge Ram quad-cab pickup with Oklahoma plate RMR004. It tells anyone with information to call 911. The Norman Police Department is the investigating agency and can be reached at 405-321-1444.

Oklahoma DPS's Oct. 14 AMBER Alert does not mention Cooke County, and it does not name KXII. A report placing the suspect in Cooke County was not independently verified against a primary source.

The alert says the warrant stems from the father's failure to appear for an exchange of the child with the child's mother. An endangered-missing advisory dated Oct. 13 preceded the AMBER Alert. That advisory says the father and child were last seen together in Norman, Oklahoma, at about 7 p.m. Oct. 11. Norman police received the missing-person report Oct. 12, according to the advisory.

Oklahoma treats the two notices differently. Its endangered-missing advisory covers children 17 or younger who do not meet AMBER criteria, according to Oklahoma DPS. The state's AMBER guidelines call for a reasonable belief of abduction, imminent danger of serious injury or death, useful descriptive information and entry into the national crime database.

Family abductions accounted for 61% of the 157 AMBER Alerts issued in 2024, according to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. The organization cautions that being with a parent does not establish that an abducted child is safe.

Texas has its own statewide network. A 2002 executive order created it, and legislation codified it in 2003, according to Texas DPS. The system followed the original Dallas-Fort Worth program, which began after the 1996 abduction and murder of Amber Hagerman.

House Bill 3556, effective June 13, 2023, added a local option. When a child is known to be missing but statewide criteria have not been verified, a local chief law enforcement officer may request activation within a 100-mile radius and adjacent counties, Texas DPS says. The change followed the 2022 kidnapping and murder of Athena Strand in Wise County.

For regional context, Texas DPS recorded 19 juvenile missing-person entries in Cooke County during 2025. It recorded 115 in Grayson County and 353 in Denton County. The figures count entries made during the year. They do not count unresolved disappearances or AMBER Alerts.

Texas DPS cautions that an alert's discontinuation does not necessarily mean the missing person was found. The agency describes its archive statuses as preliminary and unofficial and says the investigating agency should confirm the outcome.

_Editor's note: Everyone charged with a crime is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law._