By Continuous News Desk
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 at 12:38 p.m.
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Conway Police spokeswoman Catina Hipp says detectives have a woman in custody and are questioning a man in connection with the disappearance of a 2-week-old baby boy early this morning.
Investigators haven't released details about who's in custody, but they plan to file formal charges against the woman sometime Wednesday.
The baby's great-aunt says he was found alive around 4:00 this afternoon after being taken by someone close to the baby's mother.
Bernadette Baker says 2-week-old Sharawn Jarod Chestnut, Jr. was found in a bag under a truck seat. Hipp confirmed that, but couldn't provide further details Tuesday night.
Baker tells us a friend of Criche Nelson, the child's mother, took the baby from his home while Nelson was in the shower. Baker said the woman then took the child to a neighbor and asked her to keep him for the night. Conway Police will not confirm any details about where the baby was found or by whom, though relatives said someone phoned in a tip which led to the truck being stopped near Mill Pond Road and Highway 501 in Conway.
Hipp said Nelson called police just after midnight Tuesday morning to report Sharawn missing from their home on Duckett Street.
Police said Nelson reported putting her one-year-old daughter and Sharawn to bed around 11:00 p.m. Monday. Nelson told police she checked on her children around midnight and discovered Sharawn was missing.
Sharawn is home, unharmed, with his mother.
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