Three arrested on suspicion of Oakland toddler's kidnapping
Oakland police arrested the parents and a grandmother of a 2-year-old girl on suspicion of her kidnapping last week.
Police said that Andrew Coleman and Tamira Claggion, the toddler's parents, were arrested about 12 hours after the abduction, along with Chalita West, the child's maternal grandmother.
Oakland police said the three relatives violently attacked the child's other grandmother, who is her guardian, and abducted the 2-year-old on May 20 from near 39th and Adeline streets in Oakland.
An Amber Alert was issued for three Bay Area counties that evening as authorities searched for the child and her alleged abductors.
The kidnappers used a gun and a knife in the attack, Oakland Police Lt. Marcos Campos said in a press conference on May 21. The child's guardian was left with moderate injuries, including bruising to her body and face.
The child was found safe just after midnight on May 21, Campos said. The 2-year-old has been reunited with her guardian, police said.
Campos said that the grandmother who was attacked was the sole legal guardian of the child, but there was a scheduled court hearing weeks away amid ongoing custody dispute, and custody disagreements appear to have played a role in the kidnapping.
Campos said police found the child 'through members of the community giving us information,' which he said was helped by the Amber Alert, and Oakland Police Department technology.
Coleman, 25, and Claggion, 23, were arrested and booked into the Santa Rita Jail in Dublin on suspicion of kidnapping, assault, unlawful child detention, residential burglary and aggravating factors, according to jail records.
West, 49, was arrested on suspicion of the same charges, as well as giving false information to a police officer and grand theft, according to jail records.
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