San Diego
A 24-year-old San Diego man was charged with kidnaping and auto theft after the second holiday incident in which a reportedly stolen car was inadvertently taken with children in the vehicle.
San Diego police spokesman Bill Robinson said a man drove off with a van parked at UC San Diego Medical Center and traveled less than a block before he turned around and returned to the hospital. He surrendered to a security guard, apparently because he had discovered that there were six children in the van.
The children were left in the car by their father, Emanual de Jesus, who had gone into the hospital to get his wife.
The suspect, Ahmed Vincent Gomez, was turned over to police and is being held in County Jail on suspicion of six counts of kidnaping and one charge of auto theft.
Earlier this week, the two children of a Delano, Calif., couple were missing for 19 hours after a thief drove away in the family’s car as the two children slept in the back seat. The car and children were spotted later in a San Ysidro shopping center. The children were frightened but unharmed.
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