good afternoon good afternoon everyone
we're following breaking news out of
North Carolina as an Amber Alert has
been canceled after Danville police say
51 year-old Carl Kennedy has been
arrested in Randolph County North
Carolina
he's accused of kidnapping his seven
month-old daughter Emma Kennedy Sunday
night in South Side of course that was
the subject of an Amber Alert that's
been watched across the country
they say the baby girl appears to be in
good health and is being evaluated at a
local hospital her mother has been
notified
10news reporter Tommy Lopez is at the
Randolph County Sheriff's Office's John
is now lives with Tommy I understand
that you just saw Paul Kennedy
being exported by deputies into the
sheriff's office
yeah we saw a man that we think is Carl
Kennedy he was just behind me he was
being taken into another building here
at the Randolph County Sheriff's Office
there were FBI agents here we all got
out of the vehicle there were other
sheriff's deputies as well and they
walked over to this building this is
what you're seeing here this was about
30 minutes ago not long after we
received news that of the arrest and of
the canceled Amber Alert so it is good
news for everyone in Danville and
southern Virginia as well as for
everyone here in North Carolina this is
Asheboro North Carolina about a 15
minute drive south of Randleman where
police say that the u.s. Secret Service
was involved at the I agents and some
local law enforcement in finding Carl
Kennedy and again as you said there is
good news that the seven-month-old is
safe and she is at a local hospital that
is just a precaution they believe that
she is okay and so we do expect to learn
more today we know that the sheriff's
office is going to speak to us here
about the latest in this investigation
any other details they might have on how
they were able to track down Karla
Kennedy there are still some details
John at this time that we don't know
yeah Tommy I think probably the next
question everybody would have is that
after the you know that everybody is
safe is it was it a traffic stop or was
it at a restaurant or a rest area any
indication how that all may have played
out yet or is that there's a tour
yeah we don't know it is too early we do
know that the US Secret Service was
involved in FBI agents were involved so
it was a lot of manpower in this search
again since Sunday night so you know
we're looking at more than a full day's
worth of work and this is where Carl
Kennedy was living I mean this is the
same County that his address is listed
at so he was not far from home it looks
like as of this time but no we don't
know the circumstances that the arrest
was under
Tommy what can you tell us about what
happens next you said there'd be a news
conference this afternoon looks like
he's just been taking in for whatever's
referred to generally as processing
do you have any idea what happens from
this point forward
right it does look like processing and
probably questioning this is just an
auxilary building here it's not actually
the jail so we think that law
enforcement the sheriff's office here
Randolph County should give us some more
information we hope to learn more about
the circumstances under the arrest we
will certainly ask those questions ask
what this search was like ask what
information led them to find Carl
Kennedy there are still a lot of
unanswered questions right now John I'm
just looking at the video it appears as
if he wasn't in cuffs did you notice
Tommy when they brought him in yeah yeah
I know it did look like he was in
handcuffs and you could see there were
multiple men that were kind of around
him if they did this very quickly we
just saw this car pull up and we rushed
over to where they were and they took
him in and he was still in plain clothes
we didn't notice any signs of injury on
him at least that we could see and in
the brief moments where he was visible
and we think that he might come out
again they might be bringing him back
into the sheriff's office so you can see
this distance here and I'll spin you
around this is the sheriff's office here
behind me where we hope to speak with
members of law enforcement so we could
get another look at him to see what he
looks like and to see the expression on
his face we'll try to ask him any
questions if we can
if we get a look at him here in the next
couple of minutes Joan all right Tommy
Lopez reporting live thank you very much
and again this all has been the subject
of an Amber Alert that started right
here in Danville in our region and
Danville police had been the lead
authorities in this search however it
was widely believed that the the suspect
was Carl Kennedy was in fact down in
North Carolina and that appears to have
been the case and will continue to to
find out what we can we do know that the
baby's mother has been notified and we
expect or we have heard I'll have to
confirm that that she is now headed down
to where her daughter is and and the
daughter is fine Emma and she 7 months
old and she is in the hospital being
checked over but it appears that
everything is fine there so just to wrap
it up quickly as Tommy said the
sheriff's office does plan to hold a
news conference this afternoon and we
will carry that live on the air and
online to WSL Escom the meantime stay
up-to-date on this developing story we
will have text updates on WS LS comm and
then tonight starting at 5:00 o'clock we
will
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