Cameras inside the South Shore India Market in Braintree, south of Boston, captured the moment 47-year-old Stephen O’Brien on August 12 allegedly grabbed the one-year-old boy and walked out, the station reports.
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“He just walked right into the store took ten steps got the kid and then followed the exit sign right to the back door”, store owner Mehtab Ahmed said.
“God bless the guy”.
O’Brien was confronted by the father at the rear of the store.
Police tell FOX25 Stephen O’Brien, 47, went in to a Quincy Avenue grocery store Friday and grabbed a young boy who was shopping with his parents.
Officers found O’Brien and learned through witnesses and video footage from the store that he entered the store, picked up a 13-month-old child who was with his parents and walked toward the back of the store at a fast pace.
The clerk walked outside and spotted him, before running after him.
Stephen O’Brien, 47 of Braintree, was arrested on August 12. “He had access right to the woods, came through had gone down this small little alley way through here”, said Ahmed. O’Brien was arrested soon after in a wooded area behind the store following a struggle and charged with kidnapping and resisting arrest.
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The judge held him on a $100,000 cash bail.
