(Butte County, CA) – CHP has issued an alert – for Butte County in particular – seeking a former Willows man suspected of kidnapping his ex-wife’s 5-year-old granddaughter from North Carolina.

Action News reports 84-year-old Orion Douglas Memmott “is believed to be driving a 1990 Chevy truck, California license plate 25IZ734.” However, the color of the vehicle was not listed.

Nine years ago, Memmott was sentenced to a year-and-a-half in federal prison for attempted tax evasion, found guilty of numerous financial crimes while working as a tax attorney. The hundreds of thousands of dollars he stole included money from a client’s medical trust. “leaving her destitute and homeless” according to the TV station.