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San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office deputies on Saturday arrested a man on suspicion of kidnapping his child, according to a Sheriff’s Office press release Sunday.
Shortly before 4 p.m. Saturday, April 27, the Atherton Police Department requested Sheriff’s Office deputies’ assistance in a pursuit involving a vehicle that had made traffic infractions.
While responding, sheriff’s deputies were flagged down outside the North Fair Oaks substation by a woman who said that her 4-year-old daughter had been kidnapped by the child’s father following a verbal argument, according to the press release. The suspect was last seen leaving the Budget Inn with the child in the 2500 block of El Camino Real in Redwood City.
Deputies learned the description of the vehicle leaving the Budget Inn matched the car involved in the Atherton pursuit, according to the Sheriff’s Office. Atherton officers and Sheriff’s Office deputies followed the suspect on El Camino Real until he returned to the Budget Inn parking lot, where he was taken into custody without incident. The child was uninjured and returned to her mother, according to the press release.
The suspect, a 25-year-old from Pacoima, California, was arrested and booked into the Maguire Correctional Facility on charges of kidnapping, false imprisonment, child endangerment, reckless evading and threatening a crime with the intent to terrorize.
“The time between our deputies being flagged down and the reunification was a matter of minutes, not hours,” Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Gretchen Spiker said in a text.
Information from Bay City News Service was used in this report.
Editor’s note: It is the Pulse’s policy to withhold the names of those arrested for most crimes until the District Attorney’s Office has determined that there is sufficient evidence to file charges in the case.
