In February, a woman attempted to kidnap a child from a Target store. She actually got the child outside before the child’s parents confronted her.
Police said the suspect, described as a Black adult female, approximately 40 years old, standing around 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighing around 150 pounds, grabbed a 4-year-old victim from behind without consent and carried him outside of the store.
The woman only put the child down when she was confronted by the boy’s parents. She fled the scene on foot.
The incident was captured on store security video and police put out a community alert. A few days later, thanks to a tipster, she was arrested and booked.
Twenty-seven-year-old Los Angeles resident Yara Vanessa Pineda was located and taken into custody Wednesday after being spotted by someone in the area of Magnolia Boulevard and Tujunga Avenue in North Hollywood, the Los Angeles…
