ANGEL MIGUEL PEREZ - 1 month - North Charleston SC

South Carolina authorities are looking for a 1-month-old boy taken from a vehicle parked at a post office.
The State Law Enforcement Division issued an Amber Alert on Monday evening
for Angel Miguel Perez. The child was last seen about 5 p.m.
The Post and Courier of Charleston reported that North Charleston Police
spokesman Spencer Pryor said Angel's mother left the boy in her idling
vehicle as she went to drop off mail. When she returned, the child was
gone.
A witness told police a woman left with the child in a gray, four-door compact vehicle with a spoiler.
The 11-pound infant was wearing a blue shirt, pants and hat.
The suspected abductor is a black female in her mid-20s, about 5-foot-1 and
175 pounds, wearing a blue and white striped shirt.

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The South Carolina Law Enforcement Department has issued an Amber Alert for a missing 1-month-old boy.According to North Charleston officials, the 26-year-old mother of Angel Miguel Perez left the infant inside a running vehicle and then ran into a post office to drop off mail. When she returned to her vehicle, the child was gone, police said.A
witness told police that a black woman in her 20s with shoulder-length
hair, a medium complexion, and wearing a blue and white striped shirt
and boots was seen walking across the parking lot with an infant in
hand before fleeing the area in a gray or silver Honda Accord with a rear spoiler.Police said it was unclear which direction the woman went.

SLED has issued an Amber Alert for the 1
month old child missing after going missing at the post office on
Rivers Ave. Angel Miguel Perez was born on 10/17/09. He is 11
pounds. He was wearing a blue shirt, blue pants, white shoes and a
blue hat. If you have ANY information on what happened to this child,
call North Charleston Police at 822-1128.


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North Charleston police said Monday that a mother who left her child
in the car when she ran into the post office came out and found her
child missing.

Here is the statement from police:

“At about 5 this afternoon a Hispanic female pulled into the Post
Office at 6401 Rivers Avenue with a one month old Hispanic male infant
inside of the vehicle. The female reportedly left the vehicle running,
with the infant inside, and ran inside to drop off mail. When she
returned to the vehicle the child was gone.

A witness told Police that a stocky built black female was seen
leaving the area of the post office with an infant child in hand. The
female was reportedly seen getting in to a gray, four door compact
vehicle. The infant was reportedly wearing a blue shirt and pants and
has dark hair.

Anyone with information should contact North Charleston Police at 554-5700. Any additional information will be forwarded.“

Authorities in South Carolina canceled an Amber Alert overnight after finding the child safe.Angel Perez was reunited with his parents in North Charleston early Wednesday morning. Officers said he was not hurt.Authorities got a tip and found Angel at a home in Summerville, northwest of Charleston, Wednesday around 12:30 a.m.Police
arrested and charged a 19-year-old woman with kidnapping. Angel went
missing Monday. Inestigators said someone grabbed him from his mother's
car at the post office when she stepped out to drop off some mail.Investigators have a news conference scheduled later this morning.

Police in South Carolina have found a 1-month-old boy who was taken from a vehicle in North Charleston earlier this week.
A statement by North Charleston police spokesman Spencer Pryor said Angel
Miguel Perez was found safe at a home in Summerville about 12:30 a.m.
Wednesday.
Pryor says a 19-year-old woman has been arrested and charged with kidnapping. Her name was not released.
Pryor says officers from North Charleston and Summerville went to the home
after getting a tip. He says the boy was taken to the Medical
University of South Carolina in Charleston for an evaluation and was
reunited with his parents.
A police dispatcher referred questions to Pryor, who did not immediately return a phone message
seeking additional information. Police planned a news conference late Wednesday morning.

A newborn baby boy snatched from an
idling car in a South Carolina post office parking lot was found safe
early Wednesday and a woman was in custody in his kidnapping, police
said.
Investigators tracked down the 1-month-old infant, Angel Miguel Perez, at a home in
Summerville at about 12:30 a.m. Wednesday, North Charleston police
spokesman Spencer Pryor said in a statement.
A 19-year-old woman was arrested and charged with kidnapping, Pryor said. Her name wasn't released.
North Charleston and Summerville officers were acting on a tip when they went to the house where the child was found, he said.
The boy was taken to the Medical University of South Carolina hospital in
Charleston for an evaluation and then was reunited with his parents.
The baby's mother, Lidia Juarez, said she stopped at a North Charleston
post office on Monday afternoon and left the infant in the car with its
engine running while she went inside to buy stamps.
Juarez told police she was in the post office less than five minutes. When she came back to her car, she said, her son was gone.
State officials issued an Amber Alert for the child late Monday and local,
state and federal authorities asked for public help in the search
Tuesday.
The FBI was offering a $20,000 reward for information that leads to the conviction of the
kidnapper and set up an e-mail address and a bank of five phone numbers
to encourage anyone with information to contact them.
It wasn't known whether the tipster will be able to collect the reward
money. Police planned a news conference late Wednesday morning.

Police have arrested Andrea Simone Walker, 19, from Goose Creek for the kidnapping of 1-month-old Angel Miguel Perez.


Perez was taken from a car at the Rivers Avenue Post Office on
Monday afternoon while his mother was inside running an errand. His
abduction resulted in an amber alert spanning 2 days.

Police think Walker followed mother and child and saw an opportunity
at the Post Office to abduct the child. Police went to the Grove
Apartment Complex where they found the infant in an apartment with
Walker and several other people. Those people are not facing charges.

The arrest and recovery came thanks to citizen phone tips.

Perez and his parents were re-united around 12:30 am Wednesday and
Walker was taken into custody. A bond hearing for Walker is expected
at 2pm.

Law enforcement officials from the local, state and federal level,
as well as North Charleston Mayor Keith Summey were elated to announce
the safe return of baby Angel Miguel Perez to his mother and father at
a press conference Wednesday morning.
Spencer Pryor, spokesman for the North Charleston Police, said two
phone tips helped identify the suspect as Andrea Samone Walker, 19, as
well as the location of both the suspect and the 1-month-old baby.
The tips led police to the Grove Apartments in Summerville where the baby was secured and Walker was arrested without incident.
Police believe Walker followed Perez' mother, Lidia Perez, and when
the opportunity presented itself to kidnap the child, she did.
In an early morning release, police said the baby was safe but would
be transported to the Medical University for an exam to make sure he
was in perfect health. At MUSC, mother, father and son were reunited.
Angel was snatched out of his mother's car in a North Charleston
post office parking lot. The boy's mother told police she left her son
in a running car while she went inside to drop off mail. When she
returned, the child was gone.
Witnesses told police they saw a black woman running from the post
office parking lot with a baby in her arms. They described the suspect
as a short, stocky black woman wearing a blue and white striped shirt
and boots.
By Monday night, police released a description of the suspect's car, a gray or charcoal Honda Civic with a rear spoiler.
An Amber Alert was issued by the State Law Enforcement Division Monday night and the FBI joined in the search Tuesday morning.

North Charleston police and the
Solicitors Office announced Wednesday that no criminal charges will be
brought against Lidia Juarez for leaving her infant unattended at the
time he was kidnapped.

1-month-old Angel Perez was in his car seat at the Rivers Ave Post
Office in North Charleston when according to police 19-year-old Andrea
Samone Walker of Goose Creek took the child.

The abduction set off a 2-day amber alert resulting in the reunion of child and family the day before Thanksgiving.

Officials say Juarez acted irresponsibly by leaving her baby for a
few minutes in a running car but the lack of supervision did not rise
to the level of neglect which would break the law.