A woman abducted off a Philadelphia street was reunited with her family hours after police said she was found safe outside Baltimore and the man who grabbed her was arrested.
Keisha Gaither, who a day earlier had sobbed as she pleaded for the safe return of her kidnapped daughter, was smiling as she stood before the microphone at a Philadelphia news conference Wednesday evening.
"I'm taking my baby home. Thank you. Thank you so much," she said as authorities announced the rescue of 22-year-old Carlesha Freeland-Gaither and the arrest of the suspect.
Law enforcement agents spotted her and the man in a car with a broken-out back window in Jessup, Maryland, and arrested the suspect after he stepped out of the car, authorities said.
Freeland-Gaither had some injuries but was generally doing OK, police said. Family members were reunited with her late Wednesday after Philadelphia police drove them to the hospital.
Authorities said there was no indication Freeland-Gaither and the man, who used to live in Philadelphia, knew each other.