Reward for Information About 5-Year-Old Girl Kidnapped From Playground Upped to $25,000

Dulce Alavez, 5, in a file photograph on left and in a convenience store getting ice cream shortly before she was taken from a playground in Bridgeton, New Jersey on Sept. 16, 2019. FBI

The reward for information leading to the return of Dulce Alavez, a 5-year-old New Jersey girl, or to the man who kidnapped her, has been upped to $25,000.

Dulce was playing on a playground in Bridgeton on Sept. 16 when she was led away by a man to a red van, according to an Amber Alert issued on Tuesday.