Boy, 4, abducted in Cobb is found safe in Gwinnett
by Kathryn Dobies
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February 05, 2010 01:00 AM | 1262 views | 1 1 comments | 8 8 recommendations | email to a friend | print
The Amber Axlert message was flashed on information signs along Metro Atlanta interstates Thursday morning.<br>Photo by Thinh D. Nguyen
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MABLETON - After a horrific day of chaos, a 4-year-old Mableton boy who was abducted from his mother on Thursday morning was found in Gwinnett County and reunited with his mother shortly after.

According to Cobb Police, Christian Guevera was taken from his mother just before 9 a.m., when she arrived back at her home in the Village Mobile Home Community after taking her 7-year-old son to school. Cobb County Police spokesman Sgt. Dana Pierce said the mother was approached at her home, at 750 Six Flags Road, by two Hispanic men in masks and assaulted. The men grabbed the 4-year-old and fled in an older white Chevrolet Suburban. The mother went to a neighbor's house and got help calling 911.

Police released a Levi's Call and subsequent Amber Alert after the incident was reported.

Gwinnett County SWAT located the boy around 4:15 p.m. in good health at Madison Ridge Apartments, 1121 Indian Trail Road in Norcross. Police said the boy was found with several men, who were all arrested at the scene and taken to Cobb County Police Headquarters. Charges are pending.

Investigators did not believe the boy sustained any injuries from the abduction, but he was taken to a nearby hospital to get checked out. It is believed that the boy and his mother were reunited at the hospital.

Although police did not release details as of late Thursday regarding motive or suspects, the boy's grandfather spoke to media early Thursday afternoon and said he believed there was a ransom for $100,000 involved in the taking of the child. Later, the boy's uncle said the mother had received two phone calls on her cell phone asking for a ransom, but not threatening his life.

A man, who would only identify himself as Christian's uncle, also told media he had heard from a friend that the mother's boyfriend had some involvement. Christian's father died in 2007 in a motorcycle crash, and the uncle believes that the men accused of taking the child were looking to take advantage of the mother.

Christian's 7-year-old brother came out of the Guevera's house shortly after the child was found and told reporters, "I was scared when the police said that they didn't know where Christian was."

The uncle said the family was relieved after receiving news that his nephew was found.

"Me, as a man, I want to take care of my nephews," the uncle said. "When they're around me, I mean this is my family. Since my brother passed away, I'm not like his dad, I'm never going to replace his dad, but he [Guevera's father] was my brother."

Police believe this was not a random kidnapping and that the family was targeted, Pierce said.

"For whatever reason, this family was targeted, Pierce said shortly after Guevera was found. "Again, we're not releasing what motive may have played a part in this. We're just happy and thankful that this 4-year-old is going to be checked out, he's going to be fine, and he's going to be reunited with the mother."

Few neighbors were willing to talk to the media, and many said they did not know the family. Lemuel Garcia, who lives a block away from the Gueveras, said he had never met the boy or his mother. He also said this is the first time, in the 10 years he has lived in the trailer park, that he had ever heard of a kidnapping there.

Pierce said they were able to locate the suspects thanks to various investigative tools.

"Again, we want to thank everybody with all the phone calls that came in from the various jurisdictions about white Chevrolet Suburbans and all that information being put out there about the Amber Alert - the system worked," Pierce said. "And for that we're very grateful."
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February 05, 2010
Yeah, this is the NEW America. You can't convince me this wasn't somehow connected to the Mexican drug cartel. Most folks that live in trailers don't have $100,000's of dollars under the bed from working legitimately! Kidnappings are a daily occurence in Phoenix, Az. Right over the border in Juarez, Mx., 200 people killed in January alone already this year. We have seen reports on Atlanta being the drug cartel hotbed! Wake up folks! This child needs to taken from this home & put in a safe place! Bet if MY KID was kidnapped like that Child & Family Services would be investigating! What's that? Oh yeah, these folks live OUTSIDE of our laws!
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