VIDEO: Mother makes plea for return of son

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- An Amber Alert has been issued after a 2-year-old boy was taken from his home in Boyle Heights by his biological father.

Authorities say Edwin Vargas was taken in the 1000 block of Lorena at about 6:30 a.m.

The boy's mother made an impassioned appeal to the father for her son to be returned.

Watch the report above from Eyewitness News.