{"id":60208,"date":"2015-01-30T22:33:01","date_gmt":"2015-01-31T06:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=60208"},"modified":"2017-07-30T21:09:45","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T04:09:45","slug":"3-month-old-infant-abducted-in-palmdale-authorities-seeking-ellsworth-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2015\/01\/30\/3-month-old-infant-abducted-in-palmdale-authorities-seeking-ellsworth-young\/","title":{"rendered":"3-month-old infant abducted in Palmdale [update:infant found, suspect arrested]"},"content":{"rendered":"

PALMDALE \u2013 Authorities are asking for the public\u2019s help in locating 27-year-old Ellsworth Jerome Young<\/strong>. He is accused of punching his girlfriend in the face and then abducting their 3-month-old daughter on Friday from the 800 block of East Palmdale Boulevard. He may be armed with a handgun.<\/p>\n

Young\u2019s vehicle is described as a blue 2004 Honda Element with a broken driver\u2019s side tail light and damage to the driver\u2019s door. The vehicle has a Washington State license plate of AFD 9769.<\/p>\n

According to Sheriff\u2019s officials, at approximately 11:41 a.m. Friday, Jan. 30, Young punched his girlfriend, causing a black eye. She ran into a check cashing business to escape from him, leaving their 3-month-old infant in the car on the 800 block of East Palmdale Boulevard, Sheriff\u2019s officials said. Young drove away with the child.<\/p>\n

The victim claims Young has a black semi-auto pistol and repeatedly forced her to commit sex acts as recently as Thursday, Jan. 29. Young fled north and was last reported in Bakersfield at 5:57 p.m. Friday.<\/p>\n

He is possibly headed to Seattle, Washington.<\/p>\n

Young is a 27-year-old black male, around 6 feet 4 inches tall and 200 pounds. He was last seen wearing a black jacket and blue jeans. The baby is 3 months old, of mixed race, with straight brown hair. She was last seen wearing a onesie with red cherries and pink pants, according to the alert.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information about this incident is encouraged to contact the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s Palmdale Station at 661-272-2400. To remain anonymous, call “Crime Stoppers” at 800-222-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n

UPDATE<\/span>: At approximately 2:30 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 31, Ellsworth Young was located and arrested by Bakersfield Police Department. The baby was found unharmed and is now safe.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Editor’s note<\/span>: The initial article identified Ellsworth Young as a 28-year-old black male, however, LASD booking records state that Young is actually 27 years old.<\/em><\/p>\n

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PALMDALE \u2013 Authorities are asking for the public\u2019s help in locating 27-year-old Ellsworth Jerome Young. He is accused of punching his girlfriend in the face and then abducting their 3-month-old daughter on Friday from the 800 block of East Palmdale Boulevard. He may be armed with a handgun. Young\u2019s vehicle is described as a blue […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[719],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}