22-05-2025
Oakland couple jailed after Amber Alert for 2-year-old girl
OAKLAND, Calif. (KRON) — An Oakland mother and father who allegedly kidnapped a 2-year-old girl and triggered an Amber Alert for 12 hours are now sitting behind jail bars.
Tamira Claggion, 24, and Andrew Coleman, 26, have no legal custody of their biological daughter, named Amira, police said.
Both parents have 'extensive' criminal histories, the Oakland Police Department said. The young girl lives with her paternal grandmother, who has sole legal custody, OPD said. At 12:36 p.m. Tuesday, Amira was abducted from her home on 39th Street in Oakland during a violent struggle, according to police.
The paternal grandmother was violently attacked in front of the home, police said. According to OPD, Amira's three kidnappers were armed with a gun and knife. OPD identified the three suspects as: Claggion, Coleman, and the girl's maternal grandmother, 49-year-old Chalita West.
While police searched for the missing 2-year-old girl, her parents were described as armed and dangerous.
California Highway Patrol officials activated an Amber Alert across Alameda, Contra Costa and San Francisco counties. Just after midnight, the CHP and OPD reported that Amira had been found safe and her parents were taken into custody.
Santa Rita Jail inmate records show Claggion and Coleman were booked into jail around 6 a.m. Wednesday on suspicion of felony battery with serious bodily injury, violating a child custody order, and felony burglary.
The parents are being held in custody in lieu of $140,000 bail. They are scheduled to be arraigned in Alameda County Superior Court Friday morning.
The girl's maternal grandmother is also in jail, inmate records show. West was booked on suspicion of assault with a firearm, battery, burglary, and violating a child custody order. Her bail is set at $170,000.
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West is scheduled to be arraigned Friday at the same time as her daughter and son-in-law.
An Oakland police lieutenant said tips from the community helped officers find the missing girl at another residence in the city. She was unharmed, and officers reunited the girl with her paternal grandmother.
'She was safely reunited with her guardian,' the lieutenant told reporters.
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