A one-year-old boy is safe and back home with his mother after being kidnapped at gunpoint on Saturday, according to authorities. Mateo Alejandro Montufar-Barrera was abducted while his mother was carrying him in a baby carriage near his home in the city of Chamblee, Georgia, according to police.
Authorities in Georgia on Saturday issued an Amber Alert (a missing-age notification system) following the kidnapping of a one-year-old Hispanic boy from a town in the Atlanta metropolitan area and launched a joint search operation. with FBI agents.
According to authorities' reports, the armed subject got out of a brown 2016 Acura MDX car and struggled with the mother, who desperately tried to stop him, but a second suspect got out of the vehicle, grabbed the baby and returned to the car, according to the statement.
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While fighting to prevent the man from kidnapping the boy, the woman tore a piece of his pants and managed to keep one of his shoes, reported the FBI, which released photos on its Twitter account.
Montufar-Barrera is of Hispanic origin, has brown eyes and hair and wears a Batman T-shirt and diapers, authorities said, who believed the boy was in extreme danger.
Hours later two people were detained in Carrollton, Georgia, in a vehicle that matched the alert's description. The boy was found unharmed inside the car , according to police.
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On Thursday, the US Marshals Service announced the rescue of 39 children as part of an operation in Atlanta and the central Georgia city of Macon against child sex trafficking.
With information from EFE and CNN.