Good Samaritan finds missing Northern California baby
A good Samaritan pulled a car seat from the back of a car Monday after spotting a missing baby with a man who appeared to be under the influence of drugs, police said.
Police said 8-month-old Emiliano Salinas was abducted from the Monterey County city of Soledad before 5 a.m. Monday. Police initially said the baby was a year old.
The boy was found unharmed several hours later in San Jose and reunited with his parents.
Soledad police told the Mercury News in San Jose that the baby was abducted when 43-year-old Raymond Randy Gutierrez stole a running Honda Accord with the baby inside from a man’s driveway. Gutierrez is in custody.
Construction worker Colin Blevin is credited with pulling the child from the car. Blevin acted because he felt Gutierrez was in no condition to care for a baby, police said. Blevin told the newspaper that he saw an addled Gutierrez pacing and muttering to himself outside the stolen car.
The California Highway Patrol canceled an Amber Alert about 90 minutes after issuing it Monday morning.
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