![]() ![]() "We celebrate that the twins are reunited with their loved ones. We certainly saw that this week with law enforcement officers all over the city, state and the region coming together to search for the Thomas's babies. In a Christmas Eve email to The Dispatch, Weir said officers told him "nothing motivates a cop like a child in trouble. Fingerprints confirmed Jackson's identity.Ĭolumbus police had searched for Kason in Columbus, the Dayton area and Indianapolis. ![]() Police there stopped Jackson and took her into custody. Jackson's arrest was the result of tips Columbus police received and police urging a tipster to call 911 in Indianapolis. Jackson was charged Tuesday with two counts of kidnapping and likely faces additional charges, including child endangerment and vehicle theft. Jackson arrested in IndianaĬolumbus police Deputy Chief Smith Weir reported at a late Thursday afternoon news conference that police received more than 3,000 tips about the kidnapped twins. The twins' grandmother said the family has been frustrated and fearful, especially following news earlier in the night that Kason was not found with Jackson when police arrested her earlier Thursday. More on the Columbus twins' kidnaping: What we know about Columbus missing twins suspect Nalah T. The near-zero freeze and hazardous roads made driving treacherous. It was unclear Saturday when Kason would arrive home after being taken to an Indianapolis hospital for observation. ![]() Not one alone, wishing that the other one was there. "My grandsons get to open up they presents simultaneously. "This means everything," Fonda Thomas said. Nearly three days after the kidnapping, Kason was expected to be reunited Thursday night with his family - his father Lachez Thomas immediately drove off and was bound for Indianapolis after getting word his son was found. The twins' paternal grandmother, Fonda Thomas, told The Dispatch she was elated Kason had been found alive after three days of searching. Police determined the missing car had been parked in the Papa John’s parking lot for about two days.īack in the Columbus area, family and friends of the Thomas twins were now celebrating with hot chocolate from a nearby McDonald's. How Kason Thomas was foundĪuthorities said officers were eating at a nearby restaurant Thursday evening when a woman ran in to report there was a baby left alone in a car in the Papa John's parking lot at 955 Indiana Ave., near 10th Street. Indianapolis police arrested Jackson on Thursday, but Kason was not with her. Police accuse Jackson of stealing a running car from a Donatos Pizza in the Short North with the twins inside around 9:45 p.m. Minutes before the good news, family members were begging for anyone with information about the infant's location to come forward. Kason, still wearing the same brown onesie he had on when he was last seen Monday night, was taken to Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis to be checked out as a precaution. Kyair's recovery was punctuated late Thursday when the family and search party members got the Christmas miracle news. Jackson, 24, who faces charges of kidnapping and other crimes, of leaving Kason's twin brother, Kyair Thomas, in his car seat with a quilt wrapped around him in a parking lot at Dayton International Airport, where a passerby found him two vehicles about 4:15 a.m. ![]()
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