{"id":7122,"date":"2016-04-21T14:22:01","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T18:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/?p=7122"},"modified":"2016-04-21T14:23:55","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T18:23:55","slug":"man-nabbed-in-alleged-toddler-kidnapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/?p=7122","title":{"rendered":"Man nabbed in alleged toddler kidnapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_84\" style=\"width: 271px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84\" class=\"wp-image-84 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/FullSizeRender-261x300.jpg\" alt=\"FullSizeRender\" width=\"261\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-84\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police say this image shows Larry Sample taking a Coatesville toddle from his mother on April 17. The child was recovered safely in Tredyffrin on April 20.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>COATESVILLE \u2014 Police were able track and recover after a three-day, county-wide search, a two-year-old child allegedly kidnapped by his mother&#8217;s boyfriend.<\/p>\n<p>Larry Sample was spotted by Tredyffrin Police in his car, headed northbound of US-202 near US-422 when he was pulled over, Wednesday. Police said the child was in the front seat of the car, not secured in a child safety seat. Sample was arrested and the child \u2014 and a puppy also taken at the time \u2014 were returned home that day.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>City police said that a woman \u2014 not identified by police to protect the identity of the child \u2014 reported that her two-year-old son had been taken from her father&#8217;s residence just after 4:30 a.m. on April 17. She told police that \u00a0Sample forced his way into her father&#8217;s home and took the child and puppy. She said that Sample is not the father of the child and has no parental rights, police said. She was able to take a picture of Sample carrying the child and a vehicle description, which was\u00a0distributed to police around the area.<\/p>\n<p>Sample was arraigned and sent to Chester County Prison on $100,000 cash bail.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Sample\u2019s preliminary hearing occurred at District Court 15-1-03 in front of Judge Gregory Hines. At the conclusion of the hearing, all charges were held, to include Kidnapping, False Imprisonment, Endangering Welfare of Children, Interference with Custody of Children, Burglary, &amp; Theft by Unlawful Taking (for stealing the puppy).<\/p>\n<p>He\u00a0was returned to Chester County Prison after the hearing, still being held on $100,000 cash bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COATESVILLE \u2014 Police were able track and recover after a three-day, county-wide search, a two-year-old child allegedly kidnapped by his mother&#8217;s boyfriend. Larry Sample was spotted by Tredyffrin Police in his car, headed northbound of US-202 near US-422 when he was pulled over, Wednesday. Police said the child was in the front seat of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[112,3162,4193,4194],"class_list":["post-7122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-featured","tag-coatesville","tag-featured","tag-kidnapping","tag-tredyffrin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7123,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7122\/revisions\/7123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}