The baby, Brandon Cuellar, was last seen wearing a long-sleeved white bodysuit with dinosaurs on it.
(CNN) --
Police and the FBI are searching for a 3-month-old baby they say was kidnapped in San Jose, California, while the child's grandmother was unloading groceries Monday.
The grandmother, who was taking care of the baby, Brandon Cuellar, while his mother was at work, took the boy inside her apartment and went back outside for a short time to unload the groceries, the San Jose Police Department said. .
During the time the baby was alone, a man entered the apartment and took the child away, the San Jose Police Department (SJPD) said.
Cuellar was last seen wearing a long-sleeved white bodysuit that had dinosaurs printed on it, police said.
Investigators described the suspect as a man wearing black pants, a dark blue shirt, and gray shoes with white trim.
He was also wearing a black mask and a gray baseball cap, police said.
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Police released surveillance video footage showing a man walking down a sidewalk with a covered child seat where investigators say the boy was.
Police released images of a man carrying a covered child seat.
"If you have this baby, please give it back to its mother"
"Today someone is walking with a three-month-old baby that they didn't have yesterday," SJPD Sgt. Christian Camarillo said at a press conference on Monday.
"If you have this baby, please return it to its mother. We can deal with the consequences later."
The suspect appears to be a stranger and neither the baby's grandmother nor the mother recognize the man, Camarillo said.
The boy's mother is speaking to police, according to Camarillo.
She said the boy's father is currently incarcerated.
FBI agents and police officers have been going door-to-door this Monday night looking for information and potential witnesses, the SJPD reported on Twitter.
The FBI's Child Abduction Response Team is assisting in the investigation, according to Camarillo.
"If you're a mother or a father, you don't love anything more than you love your child," Camarillo said.
An Amber Alert has not been issued as police do not have information on the suspect's vehicle or license plate, Camarillo said, but the California Highway Patrol has activated an endangered missing person notice.
Police are also asking people in the area to check their doorbell cameras and surveillance video to see if they have any footage of the man carrying the child seat.
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