{"id":661509,"date":"2025-05-02T16:38:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T23:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/?p=661509"},"modified":"2025-05-03T12:11:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T19:11:03","slug":"third-illegal-suspect-arrested-in-kidnapping-of-n-c-baby-girl-and-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/newsroom\/third-illegal-suspect-arrested-in-kidnapping-of-n-c-baby-girl-and-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"Third Illegal Suspect Arrested In Kidnapping Of N.C. Baby Girl And Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" src=index-3152.html alt=\"(Background Photo via: FBI) \/ (Center) Eleodoro &quot;Leo&quot; Estrada-Hernandez (Photo via: Wake County Detention Center)\" class=\"wp-image-661656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/TAYLOR.webp 800w, https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/TAYLOR-400x267.webp 400w, https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/TAYLOR-768x513.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(Background Photo via: FBI) \/ (Center) Eleodoro &#8220;Leo&#8221; Estrada-Hernandez (Photo via: Wake County Detention Center)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>OAN Staff&nbsp;<a href=index-3153.html>Taylor Tinsley<\/a><br>4:38 PM \u2013 Friday, May 2, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Federal Bureau of Investigation has arrested an &#8220;on the run&#8221; illegal immigrant in connection with the <a href=index-3154.html data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/newsroom\/north-carolina-2-illegals-charged-after-kidnapping-woman-and-infant-demanding-1m-ransom-third-suspect-still-at-large\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">kidnapping of a 26-year-old mother and her young child<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Friday, FBI Director Kash Patel commended agents in Charlotte, North Carolina, for the arrest of Eleodoro &#8220;Leo&#8221; Estrada-Hernandez, 37. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING out of <a href=fbicharlotte584f.html>@FBICharlotte<\/a>: This morning, our Agents arrested an individual Eleodoro &quot;Leo&quot; Estrada-Hernandez in connection with the kidnapping of a young mother and her baby in North Carolina on Monday night.<br><br>Our agents and partners acted incredibly quickly in this case.\u2026 <a href=index-3155.html>pic.twitter.com\/rmZInYyJV3<\/a><\/p>&mdash; FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) <a href=index50a7-4.html>May 2, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=index-1189.html charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>His apprehension comes just days after Garner Police said that three armed suspects broke into a family\u2019s home &#8212; demanding they hand over $1 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After the husband refused, the suspects then tied him up and abducted his wife and their 11-month-old daughter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pair were found safe just hours later and police apprehended two of the suspects the next day. The mother had run to a nearby residence with her child, alerting a neighbor of what had happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Paola Duran Duran <\/strong>&#8211; 25 years old, two counts First Degree Kidnapping, one count of Second Degree Kidnapping<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Miguel Angel Duran Duran<\/strong> &#8211; 23 years old, two counts of First Degree Kidnapping, one count of Second Degree Kidnapping<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/siblings.webp\" alt=\"(L) Miguel Angel Duran Dura. \/ (R) Paola Duran Duran (Photos via: Garner Police Department) \" class=\"wp-image-661659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/siblings.webp 800w, https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/siblings-400x267.webp 400w, https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/siblings-768x513.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(L) Miguel Angel Duran Dura. \/ (R) Paola Duran Duran (Photos via: Garner Police Department) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re fortunate here in Wake County to live in a community where random violence like this is extremely rare,\u201d said District Attorney Lorrin Freeman. \u201cIt\u2019ll be during the next few weeks and months as this case proceeds through the system that we\u2019re able to determine if there was any specific targeting of these individuals.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Prosecutors say that the brother-sister duo are illegal Mexican nationals and could be a flight risk. Both were denied bond and are being held at the Wake County Detention Center. They were also under an ICE hold prior to their arrest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hernandez has been identified as the third suspect sought by federal agents. According to FBI Director Patel, Hernandez is an illegal immigrant who was previously deported and now faces multiple charges at the state level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stay informed! Receive breaking news blasts directly to your inbox for free. Subscribe here.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Bureau of Investigation has arrested an &#8220;on the run&#8221; illegal immigrant in connection with the kidnapping of a 26-year-old mother and her young child.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":661656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ub_ctt_via":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[32959,3412,25057,2278,920,184350,584,457],"class_list":["post-661509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsroom","tag-bond","tag-charges","tag-husband","tag-illegal","tag-kidnapping","tag-patel","tag-police","tag-taylor-tinsley"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/TAYLOR.webp","author_info":{"display_name":"Sophia Flores","author_link":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/author\/sophia-flores\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661509"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":661866,"href":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661509\/revisions\/661866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}