MINNEAPOLIS - A man suspected of kidnapping a 13-year-old girl was moments away from taking her to Mexico where he planned to marry her when police arrived and rescued her, the girl's mother said.

An Amber Alert was issued after Katheryn "KayeDee" Deverney was taken from her Minneapolis home Wednesday night. She was found late Friday at a South St. Paul home, and police arrested Luis E. Pallares-Villasana, 28.

"When the cops arrived, he was going downstairs to get a blanket, but otherwise, he was all packed and ready to go to Mexico," Shannon Phelps said Saturday.

She alleged that Pallares-Villasana climbed up to the second-floor window of her daughter's bedroom while the rest of the family was downstairs watching television, and took the girl out the window. They both fell, but nobody heard them, she said.

Later that night, KayeDee's brother discovered she was missing. He found a note with the following words: "Dear Katie's mom. No one loves Katie. I love Katie. I'm taking Katie far away. We're going to be happy."

But KayeDee didn't want to stay with Pallares-Villasana and asked to call home, the mother said.

"He's obsessed with her," she said. "He told her he wanted to take her down there, that he was doing all this because he loved her. They were going to get married, he told her."

KayeDee shook her head and said, "No, no," when asked if the suspect had hurt her or forced himself on her, the mother said.

"Physically, she is fine," she said. "Emotionally, I don't know. She was very, very happy to see me and happy to be home."

Pallares-Villasana came to the family's home in September, saying he was looking for a former girlfriend he thought lived there. After that, he allegedly began stalking KayeDee and, in a similar incident, took her from the home last month, her mother said.

"He told her he knew her stepdad was putting up blinds in her room; he saw her when she had been brushing her teeth," she said. "Little bitty things like that, but he had been watching her."

When police officers arrived at the South St. Paul house where KayeDee had been held, she "was relieved to see the police and, as one of my lieutenants put it, she ran into his arms," Minneapolis police Capt. Rich Stanek said.

"She went through quite an ordeal for a 13-year-old," Stanek said. "We're very fortunate to have found her when we did because we believe the intention all along was to take her out of the state and out of the country."