'We have the baby!' Fort Worth police recover kidnapped infant
TARRANT COUNTY (CBSNewsTexas) - The Fort Worth Police Department has released bodycam video showing the moment officers found a kidnapped baby on May 15.
"We've got the baby," officers exclaimed as they picked up the infant from his carrier, which was lying in a ravine.
Police said the six-month-old, who is heard crying in the footage appeared uninjured.
His mother called police after a man jumped into her car in the 3300 block of N. Pecan Street and drove off with the baby. Her brother-in-law said she had just run inside her home for a minute to put down groceries.
Little more than an hour later, officers found her car on Deen Street and took the suspect into custody; however, the baby was missing from the car.
Officers gathered information from the suspect and found the baby five minutes later.
Sgt. Ronnie Chau, the officer who found the baby, said he was elated in that moment.
"It was like an hour and a half... hour and 20 minutes of just buildup... where is this baby? Where could it be? And at that moment it was just pure emotion," he said. "Just letting it go."
Chau said that in his 20 years in law enforcement, he hadn't "experienced anything like this before."
The suspect was charged with kidnapping, abandoning/endangering a child and auto theft.