LIVE: Columbus police give update on search for missing 5-month-old baby - WLWT Cincinnati

REPORTING AT THE WHITE HOUSE, MEGAN MITCHELL, WLWT NEWS 5. SHEREE: I WANT TO GET BACK TO THE BREAKING NEWS RIGHT NOW. POLICE ARE PROVIDING AN UPDATE ON THE STATE MIGHT AMBER ALERT ISSUED EARLIER THIS WEEK. WE ARE BEING TOLD THE SUSPECT HAS BEEN FOUND AND WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY. >> WE WANT TO, AGAIN, THANK OUR PARTNERS FOR THE HELP IN THIS CASE AND THEIR CONTINUOUS EFFORTS TO LOCATE. OUR OFFICERS, DETECTIVES, SERGEANTS AND COMMANDERS HAVE BEEN WORKING AROUND THE CLOCK SINCE THEY WOULD MISSING LATE MONDAY NIGHT. AGAIN, WE WILL NOT STOP UNTIL WE FIND HIM. OUR FBI IS OFFERING A $10,000 REWARD FOR HIS SAFE RETURN. IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT HIS WHEREABOUTS, PLEASE CALL OUR TIP LINE OR 1-800-CALL-FBI. WE ARE RELIEVED TO HAVE LOCATED THE SUSPECT. IT TAKES US. ONE STEP CLOSER TO LOCATING HIM. WE WILL NOT STOP SEARCHING UNTIL HE IS BROUGHT HOME SAFELY. I WILL ASK THE DEPUTY CHIEF TO STEP UP TO PROVIDE MORE DETAILS ABOUT THE ARREST AND THE TIMELINE THAT LED UP TO THE ARREST. REMINDER -- THIS IS AN ONGOING INVESTIGATION SO THERE WILL BE INFORMATION WE CANNOT PROVIDE IT THIS TIME BUT WE WILL PROVIDE THE BEST INFORMATION WE CAN. THANK YOU. >> GOOD EVENING. OVER THE PAST 12 TO 24 HOURS, OUR OFFICERS HAVE FOLLOWED UP AND RECEIVED OVER THREE DOZEN TIPS FROM COMMUNITY MEMBERS, BOTH LOCALLY IN COLUMBUS AND THROUGHOUT THE STATE. OVERNIGHT, THEY RESPONDED TO THE TIPS, INTERVIEWED PEOPLE, TRIED TO REVIEW VIDEO. THEY TALK TO NUMEROUS INDIVIDUALS IN THE COMMUNITY. WE RECEIVED TIPS FROM JURISDICTIONS OUTSIDE CENTRAL OHIO. OFFICERS RELAYED THOSE TO THE JURISDICTION IN CHARGE OF THAT AREA AND FOLLOWED IN THAT MANNER. LATE THIS MORNING, ON OUR HOTLINE, THE NUMBER WE PROVIDED TO THE COMMUNITY, WE RECEIVED SEVERAL CALLS GENERATED FROM INDIANA FROM SOME INDIVIDUALS WHO RELATED CONCERNS OR INFORMATION THAT THEY BELIEVED THEY HAD SPOTTED HER IN INDIANAPOLIS. ARE DETECTIVE WAS ABLE TO CORROBORATE SOME OF THAT INFORMATION. AT A CERTAIN POINT DURING THE DISCUSSION, THEY BELIEVED IT BECAME MORE OF AN EMERGENCY SITUATION IN TERMS OF WITNESSING MS. JACKSON IN PERSON AT THAT TIME. AT THAT TIME, OUR DETECTIVE IMPLORED THOSE INDIVIDUALS TO CALL 911 IN INDIANA AND ASK IMPD TO RESPOND. I KNOW IMPD WAS RESPONDING. WE RECEIVED WORD AT APPROXIMATELY 2:00 P.M. THAT THEY HAD AN INDIVIDUAL STOP THAT THEY BELIEVED TO BE MS. JACKSON. OUR DETECTIVES WORKED WITH IMPD TO TRY TO COOPERATE THAT ANDREW IDENTITY. SHE WAS POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED THROUGH FINGERPRINTS AND TAKEN INTO CUSTODY. HE HAS NOT BEEN LOCATED. WE ARE EMPLOYING THE COMMUNITY -- WE ARE IMPLORING THE COMMUNITY AND THE GREATER INDIANAPOLIS AREA, IF YOU HAVE AN INFORMATION REGARDING THIS CRIME OR THE WHEREABOUTS OF THE BABY, PLEASE CONTACT US AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. THREE DETECTIVES FROM COLUMBUS ARMORED ROUTE 2 INDIANAPOLIS. -- ARE EN ROUTE TO INDIANAPOLIS. THERE IS INFORMATION TO UPDATE THE AMBER ALERT IN OHIO AND THE STATE OF INDIANA. WE ARE WORKING ON EXTENDING THE AMBER ALERT INTO THE STATE OF INDIANA WITH INFORMATION ASKING TO LOCATE THE VEHICLE. THAT IS THE UPDATE FROM US. >> WE WILL TAKE ANY QUESTIONS. >> HAS MS. JACKSON SAID ANYTHING ABOUT WHERE THE CHILD IS? >> WE DO NOT HAVE THAT INFORMATION. >> HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE HER MENTAL STATE? >> WE HAVE NOT LAID EYES ON HER PERSONALLY AND SHE IS IN INDIANAPOLIS SO WE DO NOT HAVE THAT INFORMATION. WE ARE HOPEFUL TO FIND ALL THAT OUT. THIS IS VERY FRESH AND VERY NEW FOR US. WE WENT TO GET THE INFORMATION OUT BUT WE DO NOT HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION. SHEREE: IF YOU ARE JUST NOW JOINING US, THIS IS A STORY THAT HAS CAPTIVATED THE TRI-STATE SINCE TUESDAY WHEN TWO BABIES WERE TAKEN FROM A COLUMBUS PIZZA PLACE. THE SUSPECT, THE WOMAN WHO STOLE THE BABIES, A 24-YEAR-OLD, WAS FOUND IN INDIANAPOLIS AND TAKEN INTO CUSTODY. SADLY, AND THIS IS WHAT EVERYONE HAS GASPING, THE ONE BABY THAT IS MISSING WAS NOT WITH HER AND HAS NOT BEEN FOUND. HE IS STILL SOMEWHERE OUT THERE. MIKE: MOM WAS DOORDASHING, WENT TO PICK UP THE PIZZA TO MAKE A DELIVERY. THE WOMAN DROVE OFF. ONE WAS FOUND THE NEXT MORNING AT THE DAYTON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. THE OTHER BABY, THEY ARE STILL LOOKING FOR. WE WILL STAY ON TOP OF THIS STORY ON AIR AND ON WLWT.COM. WE HAVE THIS BIG WEATHER STORY GOING ON. IT IS 5:22. . IN THE NEXT COUPLE HOURS, PEOPLE BETTER BE