Gas station clerk helps stop Amber Alert

Police say the motherly instincts of a gas station clerk helped them stop an Amber Alert.

A 6-month-old girl was allegedly abducted in California by her 57-year-old grandmother, Carolyn Ferguson, who suffers from a history of mental illness.

Police say Ferguson drove the infant to Arizona but her car broke down, forcing her to go to a gas station for help.

She claimed to be the girl's grandmother, but an alert cashier wasn't buying her story.

The cashier, Karin Akins, says, "She couldn't tell me anything about the baby and I just felt she was too old. She looked very old to have a five-month-old child and I called my boss on the phone to verify between mom to mom if it sounded fishy or not."

During that phone call Akins' boss informed her of an Amber Alert that had been issued for a missing child. So Akins called the police.

They took the grandmother into custody and reunited the baby with her mom.