Investigation continuing into reported kidnapping case, police say

The Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department spokesman said an investigation is continuing into a reported kidnapping on Friday afternoon on Farrow Avenue.

A child was safely returned to her mother in this case, according to police.

According to the police spokesman, at 3:36 p.m. Jan. 26, the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department responded to the reported kidnapping of a 1-year-old girl in the 2900 block of Farrow Avenue.

When they arrived, officers learned that a girl had been taken from her apartment by a man and woman in a 1990s model Oldsmobile Alero, according to the spokesman. Information was relayed about the suspect, and officers began checking various locations in the city looking for the child, according to the spokesman.

At 4:56 p.m., police made contact with the suspect, who agreed to meet officers and the family at a gas station in Missouri to return the child, but when officers went there, the suspect never showed up at the location, the police spokesman stated.

At 5:29 p.m. officers received information that the child’s grandmother had located the child and was returning her to the address, according to the police spokesman.

At 6 p.m. Jan. 26, the grandmother returned the child to the address on Farrow, according to the police spokesman. No arrests have been made as of the last official police statement on the case.