10/20/2022
An SUV stolen Tuesday night with a baby in the back seat was recovered several hours later with the 3-month-old still inside, authorities said Thursday.
The SUV with a Texas license plate was stolen about 8 p.m. Tuesday from the 1100 block of Clinton Avenue in Irvington, according to Essex County Sheriff Armando Fontoura.
Shortly before 11 p.m., sheriff’s officers recovered the vehicle abandoned in Newark’s South Ward with the baby safe inside, Fontoura said.
After the theft, Irvington police had alerted municipalities across the county that a child had been abducted.
Investigators from several agencies, including the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, responded to help find the child, Fontoura said.
“When the Essex County Sheriff’s officers found the baby, it was awake and alert. The baby was taken by EMS to University Hospital (in Newark) for precautionary evaluation,” the sheriff said in a statement.
Fontoura said the thief remains at large, having fled the area after abandoning the baby and SUV.
A spokesperson for the sheriff’s office did not say why the baby was alone in the car without a family member or guardian when the vehicle was stolen.
No arrests have been made. Anyone with information is asked to call the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office tips line at 1-877-TIPS-4EC or 1-877-847-7432.
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