Police looking for kidnapped 7-year-old

UPDATE, 3:50 p.m. - The child was located at her mother's house in the 1700 block of E. 12th Terrace at about 3:43 p.m. The girl was fine and will be placed in protective custody. Petty was taken into custody by officers and will face charges of parental kidnapping. The case will be presented to the prosecutor for consideration of charges.

 

Holly Keturah

Sandra Petty

Kansas City Police are looking for a 7-year-old girl who was kidnapped this morning.

Seven-year-old Holly Keturah was taken from her mother’s custody by Children's Services Thursday, Oct. 21. The agency placed Holly with an aunt in the 2400 block of Chelsea. Today, the mother, 34-year-old Sandra Petty, came to the aunt’s house and forcibly removed the child. The mother appeared to be under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol and was combative and behaving erratically. Petty took the child into a white Dodge Intrepid with Missouri License Plate KE9-N9L (this plate may not be entirely correct) . The driver was an unknown black woman in her late 20’s or early 30’s who wore her hair in braids.

Holly Keturah will turn 8 years old Nov. 9. She is black, 4 feet 2 inches tall and weighs 60 pounds. She was last seen wearing a blue- and gray-striped shirt over a long-sleeved white shirt, cut-off blue jean shorts and sandals. The suspect, Sandra Petty, is a 34-year-old black female who is 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighs about 140 pounds. She was last seen wearing a gray T-shirt with blue jeans. She was barefoot and had a cast on her left forearm.

If you see Holly Keturah, Sandra Petty or the suspect vehicle, please call 911 or the TIPS Hotline.

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Police investigating kidnapping

APRIL 22 UPDATE: Raul Ortiz-Caseres and Regino Vasquez-Martinez have been charged with the kidnapping in Jackson County, Mo. They are still in custody in Fairview Heights, Ill., and will be extradited soon. They are being held on $150,000 bond each.

Raul Ortiz-Caseres

Regino Vasquez-Martinez

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At about 1:52 p.m. yesterday, April 20, police were called to an apartment at 3701 Baltimore on a burglary in progress. Upon arrival, they contacted a woman who said she'd gotten a call from her sister, who lived at the apartment. The woman was speaking with her sister, and while on the phone, she said someone was trying to break into her apartment. Then the line went dead. The woman was very concerned and left work to go to her sister's apartment. When she arrived, she found the door to her sister's apartment forced open and her sister was nowhere to be found. She called police.

While police were interviewing the victim's sister, other officers found a nearby witness. He said he saw two Hispanic men force a woman into a brown van and leave. Hours later, the victim's sister got a phone call from the victim. The victim said she was in a McDonald's bathroom, and she'd locked herself inside. She told her sister she'd been kidnapped and was very afraid. After a while, the McDonald's manager unlocked the door to the bathroom. The manager found the victim obviously distraught and on her cell phone. There was a language barrier, so the manager got on the victim's phone and figured out the situation. The manager called police immediately. By that point, the victim and suspects were in Fairview Heights, Ill. Local police arrested the two suspects and located the victim at the McDonald's. The suspects are currently in custody in Fairview Heights. Kansas City detectives are there and are questioning the suspects at this time.