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Police return child in its car seat to mother, after car thief ditches child and flees

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Police returned a child strapped in its car seat to its mother shortly after a suspect stole the mother's car from a Sun Valley Ralphs grocery store parking lot, with the child in the back seat.

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Around 1 p.m., Los Angeles Police Department officers responded to a residence a short distance away, in the 12100 block of Peoria, where the child, still strapped in its car seat, was in the driveway of a residence.


Officers drove the child back to its mother, at the Ralphs grocery store on Laurel Canyon and Roscoe boulevards.

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The suspect, driving the stolen blue Nissan Rogue, was last seen going southbound on Laurel Canyon Boulevard. 

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