The boy, Adrian Jaimes, was found unharmed after an extensive search in a North Austin neighborhood late Thursday.
The boy had been snatched from the back seat of his family’s Jeep Cherokee in Northeast Austin about 7:45 a.m. Thursday as his mother prepared to take him to school.
According to arrest affidavits obtained today, the kidnapping was carried out to obtain “money owed,” but does not say why the family may have owed them money.
Hector Luis Hernandez and Modesto Vences-Garcia are each charged with aggravated kidnapping, a first-degree felony for which they face life in prison. Bail was set at $100,000 each.
The affidavits said juvenile suspects also were involved.
The documents said that police interviewed neighbors for possible information after the kidnappings and that they described seeing a dark blue Oldsmobile Alero park in front of the house on at least three occasions before the kidnapping. One of the witnesses provided a license plate.
The affidavits said that police issued a bulletin for the car and that Cedar Park police officers found it a short time later. Police interviewed a man and woman, who they said gave conflicting information about their whereabouts that day.
Police went to their home to interview them again and that they were able to get information that eventually led them to the suspects based on those interviews.
Police have scheduled an 11 a.m. news conference to discuss the case further.
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before working with contractors, just to make sure. But I've been plugging in names that definitely have active warrants for major stuff (like this) and the charges don't come up. So I take it that website only lists traffic warrants.
Does anyone know if APD/Texas has a free website that actually pulls up major warrants? I don't care if someone has an unpaid speeding ticket, but if they have an active warrant for say.....kidnapping, I'd like to know before letting them into my home.
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