Crime & Safety
UPDATED: Child Kidnapped From South Minneapolis Home
The child was abducted just before noon.
Update 4:18 p.m. 2/20/13: According to Minneapolis Police spokesperson Sgt. William Palmer's Twitter account, the child has been found safe and sound. Police also have a suspect in custody.
The following is an announcement from the Minneapolis Police Department:
Just before noon Minneapolis Police officers in the Third Precinct responded to a call from a mother reporting that she had left her 8 month old baby boy, Carlos Orozco, in his car seat in her apartment in the 2100 block of Portland Avenue South while she took a shower. When she got out of the shower the child was gone.
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Minneapolis Police Homicide Unit investigators are already assigned to this case and are asking for the public’s help in locating Carlos who is described as a not yet mobile Hispanic male dressed in a onesy with a blue and white body and red sleeves. On the chest is the logo “#1 Slugger”.
Minneapolis Police have no suspect information at this time. Anyone with information about this case is asked to call 911 immediately.
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