A a sigh of relief for a woman whose life was disrupted by a kidnappers ban intentions. Tonight, we have a complete break down of who found her, how they found her and the suspect, Delven Barnes who has a history of crime and awaiting federal charges. From the abduction scene to the hospital where car leash ace being treated tonight in maryland, a team of action News Reporters is covering this story from all angles. Our Sharrie Williams beginning our live breaking News Coverage at northwest detectives who began this investigation, sharrie. Reporter absolutely, right brian and shirleen. This investigation has taken a lot of manpower, man hours and across tate line but tonight the result they were hoping for it is the reality that this 22year old ace live and well, and commissioner ramsey says that the man behind this is a complete thug. Were so thankful. I am so happy. Thank you for all of the prayers, care and love. Reporter family relieved and counting its blessings tonight their love
Carlesha Freeland Gaither expressing her joy tonight, with word that her daughter was alive, and safe, and that the a alleged kidnapper was in custody. It is wednesday night and the big story on action news tonight is 22year old Carlesha Freeland Gaither. She has been found alive and at this hour her mother is on her way to maryland to see her and bring her home. A police van carrying carleshas family left philadelphia a couple of hours ago, and should soon be a arriving in columbia maryland where carlesha is being treated for relatively minor injuries. This is happy ending to what could have been a catastrophic story. Atf agents rescued carlesha in jessup maryland earlier tonight and arrested her alleged abductor, 37 yearold Delven Barnes. Barnes is currently wanted on attempted murder charges, in virginia. And was actually quick of aggravated assault in philadelphia nine years ago. Action News Reporter Kenneth Moton is live in maryland and Annie Mccormack is in germantown the scene o
Attack shortly before the fbi acknowledged the countrys involvement. Just a short announcement. Secretary hagel authorized 1300 more troops to deploy to iraq. Approximately a thousand of them are soldiers from the Thur Burr Gade combat team 8nd air division based in fort brag in north carolina. This is part of the additional 1500 troops the president authorized in november. With that i will take questions. You said 1300 but only a thousand listed. Do you know where they are coming from . The others . They are coming from multiple Services Like Counter Intelligence it is multi service. We talked about this before where a good chunk of the troops including would be to close included in the enabling capabilities. I dont have all of the units but i can get that if you need it. They are small groups and i dont have that level of detail. Has the secretary receive the bergdahl recommendations from the army . Are they complete . Is the report complete . Are you going to release it before chris
Get our hands around what the problem is and what we can do about it. The problem generates of course with the trafficker. There are three entities involved in trafficking. The trafficker. I call them the slave master because thats what it is. It is modern day slavery in its worst form especially when it comes to children. Then we have on the other end, the victim. Of course, that is a victim, not a child prostitute and Society Needs to understand and especially Law Enforcement that when they arrest a child for child prostitution, they should not be arrested for child prostitution, they should be taken to a shelter where they are treated as a victim of criminal conduct. Because thats what they are. But we got the real issues to deal with that society has missed is the person in the middle. And that is the demand. There is a demand for trafficking in the United States. The days of boys being boys is going to be over in the United States. They are going to be treated like criminals and b
Because of our location and because of our demographics. We have been working on this issue for a long time, trying to get our hands around what the problem is and what we can do about it. The problem generates of course with the trafficker. There are three entities involved in trafficking. The trafficker. I call them the slave master because thats what it is. It is modern day slavery in its worst form especially when it comes to children. Then we have on the other end, the victim. Of course, that is a victim, not a child prostitute and Society Needs to understand and especially Law Enforcement that when they arrest a child for child prostitution, they should not be arrested for child prostitution, they should be taken to a shelter where they are treated as a victim of criminal conduct. Because thats what they are. But we got the real issues to deal with that society has missed is the person in the middle. And that is the demand. There is a demand for trafficking in the United States.