Men Arrested for Kidnapping at Sunset Mall

SAN ANGELO, TX -- Three suspects were arrested Friday after they allegedlly kidnapped a child at the Sunset Mall.

According to the San Angelo Police Department, on Nov. 14, 21-year-old Rudy Herrera and two friends have been charged with Third Degree Felony Kidnapping after investigators with the San Angelo Police Department’s Crimes Against Children's unit found a child who had been abducted at the Sunset Mall.

Herrera and the friends, identified as 21-year-old Billie Griggs and a 16-year-old male juvenile, kidnapped Herrera’s two-year-old daughter from the child’s mother yesterday afternoon at the Sunset Mall.

A preliminary investigation revealed the trio drove to the mall, located the mother and child, and then jumped out of a pickup truck while the male juvenile suspect snatched the child in a coordinated abduction plot.

As officers were preparing to issue a community-wide Nixle Alert for kidnapping, Herrera was tipped-off that police were involved and then preemptively called police to report the child was in his possession.

Shortly after, police located the child with Herrera, Griggs, and the juvenile suspect at a residence located in the 200 block of Mockingbird Lane.

Herrera, Griggs, and the juvenile suspect have been charged with Kidnapping.

The child was returned safely to her mother.

The two remain in the Tom Green County Jail as of Saturday morning.