India, Sept. 26 -- A teenage boy from Florida's Marion County has gone missing, prompting an AMBER alert to be issued on Thursday night.

Authorities identified the boy as one Caden Speight. He is 17 years old. As per the AMBER alert, Speight is from Dunnellon in Florida, and is 6 feet tall. He weighs 150 lbs and has been marked missing since September 25. Caden has brown hair and brown eyes, and the text alert reportedly referred to him as a 'kidnapped child', as per NBC affiliate, WFLA.

As per the alert, Speight was last spotted in the area of the 12800 block of Southwest Highway 484 in Dunnellon. He is said to have been in a tee-shirt of unknown color, and had blue jeans on.

Authorities added that Speight might be in the company of f...