AMBER ALERT: Police continue search for kidnapped 6-year-old boy, three suspects

Authorities tonight continue their search for a 6-year-old boy kidnapped this morning from his northeast valley home. Three Hispanic men are suspected of kidnapping the boy about 7:30 a.m.

At an evening news conference Las Vegas police Capt. Vincent Cannito said that the family was specifically targeted in the abduction and it was not random. No family members were involved, he said, declining to say what the relationship, if any, might be between the suspects and the family. It is not a parental abduction, he said. The boy's parents were divorced in 2005.

He described the search for the boy, Cole Puffinburger, as national and said an Amber Alert has been sent to the Southwest region of the country.

"There is a very real possibility that the suspects are Mexican nationals," Cannito said, noting it's possible the suspects are headed to Mexico.

One of the men is described as having black, shoulder length, slicked-back hair. He is in his early 30s, five-feet seven inches tall and about 150 pounds. He was last seen wearing a white T-shirt and blue jeans.

There is still no description of the suspects' vehicle.

The men went to a home on Cherry Grove Avenue, near Hollywood and Lake Mead boulevards, claiming they were police officers, authorities said. They demanded money, and when the residents said they had none, the men tied up the boy's mother and her fiancee and took the boy, police said.

Cole is 3 feet 11 inches tall, 48 pounds and has distinctly stained front teeth. He has blond hair and blue eyes. Cole was last seen wearing a black John Cena WWE wrestling shirt, dark jeans, a belt, black Vans shoes, white socks and a black, zip-up hooded sweat shirt with white, black and blue stars all over it.

Anyone with information on this incident is asked to call 911 immediately, police said.

"No tip is too small," Cannito said.