Posted on 08/22/2022 3:17:42 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy
A missing 3-year-old girl was found in a north Houston motel room with a stranger, and now authorities are trying to figure out what happened to her during the 10 hours she was missing.
The stranger accused of taking the girl from her parents' apartment has now been charged.
Holman Hernandez, 50, is charged with aggravated kidnapping.
It was only thanks to a witness that investigators had any idea who they were looking for.
ABC13 was there as police surrounded a motel and arrested the suspect on Sunday.
Police said Hernandez -- the suspect at the center of the Amber Alert -- put up a little bit of a fight after he was found around 2 p.m. at a motel with the little girl, just minutes away from where she was abducted.
According to court documents, Hernandez lured the child into his vehicle, kidnapped her and took her to a motel, where authorities found them both in bed. Hernandez was allegedly only wearing boxers while the girl was in a shirt and a diaper.
Officers had to force entry into his motel room.
"Officers approached the room, knocked on the door. The suspect didn't answer, and because of the age of the kid, officers forced entry into the unit," Houston Police Chief Troy Finner said. "Once they got in, the kid was observed inside with the suspect."
Several officers who were off were called in to help canvas the Northborough area after the girl's parents reported her missing from their apartment in the 12800 block of Northborough Drive, according to Finner.
They told police they went to sleep around 11 p.m. on Saturday and woke up around 5:30 a.m. Sunday to find their door wide open and their daughter missing.
As officers canvassed the neighborhood, a neighbor told them they spotted the girl with the suspect. Their testimony helped police determine exactly who they were looking for.
Police said they saw the suspect's car parked at the motel. Management told them the suspect checked into a room around 7:30 a.m.
Officers don't believe there is any connection between Hernandez and the family.
"I can't imagine what they are going through, with a few hours not knowing where their little baby girl is," Finner said. "It's just tough. But we're so glad, blessed. Thank God the baby is OK."
The little girl was immediately taken to a hospital by ambulance to get a medical exam.
“Blood Eagle”.
Yep, go Viking on his azz.
Slow castration first then Blood Eagle.
The left doesn’t realize that this is what the police are for in a civil society. To protect the guilty from those they have harmed until a fair trial has been held according to the rules agreed upon by that society. Remove the police and let the community deal with the animal. Then the left will be begging for police to return.
I probably should have said “protect the accused” rather than “protect the guilty”, but in this case, I’m all for local justice, if the facts are as written. However, that’s why we need an agreed upon justice system.
well said ...
SPJNK.
He is from Honduras. No reports yet on whether or not he got here illegally, which most likely means that he is an illegal alien because the media would be quick to report it if he was here legally.
Now, wait a couple of days. Remember, most news immediately online/etc is either a pack of lies or crappola.
Did he touch her? Shot while trying to escape.
Problem solved — prove otherwise.
They should have shot him on the spot.
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This is why you never let your children run around unattended in public.
The Left wants disunity and chaos because they have been trained to come into chaos and, at first, organize it as a force they can direct and then take it over.
Look at Russia in 1917. Lenin and his cadre worked for years to have a well trained cadre of shocktroops and killers to take over a chaotic movement at the right time. And they did.
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