Articles labeled: kidnapping

Police have arrested a man who they say tried to kidnap a baby that he saw through an open door.

Police arrested Stanley Allen Tomlin, 38, of Bakersfield, Tuesday on suspicion of kidnapping an infant from her central Bakersfield home, close to where a little girl was nearly abducted over the weekend.

At about 2 p.m., the mother went to the bathroom and left her child on the floor of her home in the 500 block of K Street, according to Sgt. Greg Terry with the Bakersfield Police Department. Her door was wide open.

While in the bathroom, the mother heard noises and went to her living room. She found a suspect holding her baby and a diaper bag.

A 19-year-old who grabbed a child on an outing to a suburban Chicago mall has been found not guilty because he doesn’t have the mental capacity to understand his crime.

Arthur Robinzine, 19, of the 800 block of South Wolcott Avenue has been in the custody of the Illinois Department of Human Services since January.

After Robinzine was arrested Dec. 6 for grabbing a 4-year-old Elgin boy from Spring Hill Mall, he was charged with attempted aggravated kidnapping and other crimes.

Robinzine was tackled by a chaperon and a cell phone company employee who worked at the shopping center. The boy was not injured.

Authorities have reunited a mother and her 11-year-old son, who had been missing for 3 days. The boy’s stepfather has been arrested and charged with kidnapping.

Grand Rapids Police found the boy and arrested Mikell Huff on kidnapping charges after receiving a call from the youngster. David told police he was at the home of a classmate in Grand Rapids, and police picked him up and reunited him with his mother early Wednesday evening.

“I just hugged him and hugged him and hugged him,” Leah Huff said tonight.

Earlier today, Mikell Huff called his wife and said the two were in Saginaw and the child was fine. At the time, police were in the process of seeking a warrant for his arrest.

A Florida woman and her son, allegedly kidnapped by the child’s father, have been found safe.

Rashell Renee Pennell was found locked inside a gas station bathroom in Lexington, S.C., early Monday morning. The woman told investigators that 45-year-old Robert William Custer, her former boyfriend and the father of her child, put a handkerchief to her nose and mouth Sunday evening and forced her into his conversion van in Ocala, Fla., at an arranged meeting to pick up their son at the end of a visitation.

“The father walked up to the vehicle, had a handkerchief or some type of cloth, and put it to the mother’s mouth and nose, causing her to pass out,” Lexington County Sheriff James Metts said at a news conference Monday.

A baby reported missing early this morning has been found, in the trunk of a car of all places.

The child’s mother, Asia C. Sterrett, 20, told police that she had about five friends at the apartment when she noticed that her son was missing at about 1:40 a.m. After searching the apartment, Sterrett called 911 at 2:14 a.m.

“There were a number of individuals partying at the apartment. I believe there was some alcohol, maybe some marijuana had been mentioned also,” Gardner Police Chief Neil Erickson said.

Using bloodhounds, local and state police scoured the apartment complex looking for the baby and interviewed Sterrett’s friends.

“As a result of those interviews, a suspect was identified as Jason Bisceglia, 19, of 44 Linwood St. in Gardner,” Worcester County District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr. said.

We’re going to be even more thankful for our pleasant, non-psycho neighbors — because while they may mow the lawn a bit too early on a Sunday morning, we don’t think they would ever kill our children. How chilling that this was probably someone they saw every day.

The neighbor of a girl found dead Tuesday night in a bathtub inside his apartment admitted to authorities that he killed her before trying to hide her body, according to Utah police.

Esar Met, 21, lived in a row-house style unit at the same complex where 7-year-old Hser Nay Moo disappeared from Monday afternoon. Met was arrested this morning after he admitted to attempting to hold the child “by force” and she died, according to a Salt Lake County statement. Met also told authorities he tried to conceal the body and other evidence from the crime scene, according to the statement.

Two weeks after Columbus, Georgia man Eddie Harrington kidnapped his three children — 23-month-old twin girls Agena and Aliyah Battle and his 3-year-old son Cedric — they have all been found, but it’s not a happy ending:

A Columbus man and his three young children were found dead in some Muscogee County woods Wednesday, two weeks after the man took the youngsters and left letters threatening to kill them and himself, the FBI said.

FBI spokesman Steve Emmett said the four bodies were found just after noon in a wooded area of Muscogee County, which includes the city of Columbus.

Harrington was the children’s biological father, Emmett said. He did not know why the man took them. Their mother, Agena Battle, discovered them gone when she got home early March 5.

Battle called police because Harrington had left a note on the bedroom dresser saying he was depressed and didn’t want to live and that he planned to kill himself and the youngsters, the FBI said. Harrington’s father in Indianapolis got a similar letter.

Columbus police issued a warrant for Harrington’s arrest for child endangerment. A Levi’s Call was issued, and roadside alerts asked motorists to watch for Harrington’s dark green 2002 Chevrolet Impala.

A 22-year-old female solider at Fort Lewis, Washington, has been arrested for fatally shooting two fellow soldiers, Randi Miller and Timothy Miller — the two were husband and wife — and kidnapping their 7-month-old daughter. Prosecution is claiming jealousy as the motive.

The 22-year-old woman and the female victim, identified today as Randi Miller, 25, had been dating the same man at the base, according to probable cause documents. When the man spurned the 22-year-old woman in favor of Miller, she became angry, prosecutors allege. The suspect went to the couple’s Parkland house last weekend and shot Miller and her husband, Timothy Miller, 27, who were also both soldiers at the base, according to the court documents.

The suspect then tried to destroy the bodies by placing them in a bathtub and pouring acid on them, probable cause documents allege. The suspect took the Millers’ seven-month-old baby.

The suspect is scheduled to be arraigned on Wednesday. In the meantime, Pierce County sheriff’s detectives and the Army will determine who has jurisdiction over the case.

The identity of the arrested soldier has been stated in other sources as Ivette Gonzalez Davila.

Wolves in sheep’s clothing.

Parents of young, tween boys, beware! Just because a teacher looks like the girl next door, they could be a calculating, kidnapping pedophile. What was once thought to be the sociopathy of primarily males, is now proving to reveal that predators can be either male or female, some good looking, some not. One thing is for sure, pedophiles are drawn to professions in which they will have access to children.

Let’s take one of these female teachers and finally have the guts to prosecute them for what they are - CHILD MOLESTERS!

LEXINGTON, Neb. — A school computer is helping central Nebraska authorities unlock the secrets of an alleged relationship between a 13-year-old student and a 25-year-old teacher.

Lexington police are looking for Kelsey Peterson and a male student at Lexington Middle School. Police Chief Paul Schwarz said Peterson’s computer contained love letters exchanged between the teacher and student.

“At this point, we believe we have enough information to believe there was a sexual relationship,” Schwarz said on Wednesday.