Articles Tagged with assist

Published on: June 1, 2021

Unrequested Police Assistant Arrested in Twist of Fate

A man was charged with DUI after reportedly thinking he was helping the police chase a fleeing purported drunk driver, but turned out to be an officer.

On the evening of May 21, a man with his wife in the passenger seat and a youngster in a back seat was reportedly driving a Jeep without the headlights turned on.

An officer with the Mount Carmel Police Department pulled over the vehicle, and the driver allegedly lied about his name when he was asked. The officer reportedly learned that the man, who said he had no identification at the time, was driving on a revoked license from a prior DUI.

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Published on: May 21, 2019

Woman Accused of Kidnapping Toddler From LA McDonald’s

by Staycie R. Sena

A woman who was suspected of two separate incidents involving the abductions of toddlers in Los Angeles last week has been arrested as the perpetrator of one of the alleged kidnappings.

On Tuesday, the surveillance camera at a downtown Los Angeles McDonald’s recorded a 4-year-old child standing by himself near one of the tables. A woman can be seen approaching the boy before she picked him up and carried him towards the door of the restaurant. The woman was chased away when an onlooker intervened as the woman was allegedly trying to place the child inside a vehicle.

The following day, a toddler was walking with a relative when a woman reportedly tried to snatch the child. It was reported that she was unsuccessful in the alleged incident when the person with the child became suspicious of her behavior chased her away.

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