7 Year Old Foster Child Eduardo Rivera Kidnapped from Bus Stop in Riverside, CA on 01/09/09 (UPDATE: Found Safe)
A 7 year old foster child, Eduardo Rivera, was kidnapped from his school bus stop in Riverside, CA on Friday January 9, 2009 by two Hispanic men. The two Hispanic men snatched Eduardo Rivera, put him into a car waiting nearby and drove off.
Eduardo Rivera description:
- a foster child whose mother is in jail
- 3’6″ tall
- 65 pounds
- brown eyes and hair.
Officers later located the abandoned vehicle after witnesses to the kidnapping called in a description.
“Police … learned that the victim and suspects transferred to a second vehicle … identified as a newer Cadillac Escalade with possible out-of- state plates,” Baitx told the station.
A third man was at the wheel of the getaway car. No description was released of any of the three suspects.
Anyone with any information is asked to call Riverside police at (951) 353-7137.
UPDATE I: 7-Year-Old Kidnapped Boy Found Safe In Vegas
Las Vegas police followed a pair of suspected kidnappers on a 100-mile drive through the Nevada desert, and then safely recovered a 7-year-old boy who was snatched off the streets of Riverside, they said Saturday.
Eduardo Rivera was not in the stopped van, but the men inside it gave police the address of a home in east Las Vegas police raided at 5 a.m. and found the boy asleep. Several other children and a woman were also found there, and the woman is being questioned about Rivera’s presence there, police said.