Tag: FRESNO
Mom Stuffs Newborn Into Duffel Bag After Baby Tests Positive for Meth Following Childbirth
A Merced woman faces child endangerment charges after she allegedly stuffed her newborn into a duffel bag and kidnapped the baby from a hospital in Fresno, according to reports.
Police say 35-year-old Stephanie Belden didn’t want her newborn baby to be taken away after testing positive for meth during childbirth on Aug. 17, the Merced Sun-Star reported. Police met with her three hours prior to let her know the child was going to be detained.
“The biological mother wasn’t very happy with that, went back up, made her way into the maternity ward and cut off the alarm bracelet off the newborn baby, put the newborn baby in a duffel bag and walked out of the hospital,” Fresno Police Department Lt. Jay Struble told Fresno television station KFSN.
A nurse noticed the child was missing around 7:30 p.m. and officers were called at 7:36 p.m. Belden was arrested at 7:58 p.m. after police found her “hiding” at her house.
She is charged with kidnapping, child stealing, child endangerment and a parole violation.
Fresno Police Work to Identify Nearly Naked Woman Who Claims to Be Mermaid
Local authorities are asking for help identifying a nearly naked woman found wandering in Fresno, California street Tuesday morning.
The woman’s hair was wet when she was found around 3 a.m., and she told officers that she was a mermaid, and that her name was Joanna, according to the Fresno Police Department.
The woman, who has two webbed toes on both feet, told officers that she had been in the water, but replied “I don’t know” to “most questions,” police said.
She is 5-foot-4, weighs about 150 pounds and has brown eyes and brown hair. She was found walking down the middle of Millerton Road across from the Eagle Spring Golf & Country Club, about a mile south of Table Mountain.
Anyone with information about her identity is asked to call (559) 621-2455 or email the missing persons unit Detective Paul Hill at [email protected].
via: http://ktla.com/2017/04/04/police-woman-found-wet-and-nearly-naked-claiming-to-be-a-mermaid/