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Police say the Sprint telecommunications company refused to provide information to help locate a toddler who was in his father's SUV when it was stolen.
In response, Riverside County lawmakers on Tuesday will consider a moratorium on permits for new Sprint cellular towers.
"My point is to send the message to the provider that we need to do things differently when a child's life is at risk," said county Supervisor John Tavaglione, who proposed the moratorium. "The bureaucracy and the hoops that everyone has to jump through need to be minimized."
The drama began the morning of Dec. 23, when Jason Cochran buckled his 10-month-old son, Wade, into his car seat and ran into his house near Corona to get his 3-year-old son, Blake. When Cochran came back outside, his beige Lincoln Aviator - and Wade - were gone.
Cochran's cell phone, equipped with a global positioning system, also was in the car.
But Cochran's wife, Stephanie, said a Sprint operator told her the company couldn't give her the coordinates for the Aviator's location. The company told a Riverside County sheriff's detective that it wouldn't release the information without a subpoena and a $25 fee, she said.
http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/13592016.htm
Officials move to penalize Sprint over missing baby
The story had a happy ending, but it's the "what ifs" that bother Jason and Stephanie Cochran, the Riverside County Sheriff's Department, County Supervisor John Tavaglione and Temecula City Councilman Mike Naggar.
The Cochrans got their 10-month-old son, Wade, back, safe and unharmed, two hours after he was abducted by someone who stole their idling Lincoln Aviator from the driveway of their Eastvale home. But what incensed the parents, deputies who searched for the missing baby -- and now local lawmakers -- is that cellular company Sprint didn't cooperate with the sheriff's department in tracking the missing SUV.
http://www.pe.com/localnews/corona/stories/PE_News_Local_H_gps10.dd95933.html
In response, Riverside County lawmakers on Tuesday will consider a moratorium on permits for new Sprint cellular towers.
"My point is to send the message to the provider that we need to do things differently when a child's life is at risk," said county Supervisor John Tavaglione, who proposed the moratorium. "The bureaucracy and the hoops that everyone has to jump through need to be minimized."
The drama began the morning of Dec. 23, when Jason Cochran buckled his 10-month-old son, Wade, into his car seat and ran into his house near Corona to get his 3-year-old son, Blake. When Cochran came back outside, his beige Lincoln Aviator - and Wade - were gone.
Cochran's cell phone, equipped with a global positioning system, also was in the car.
But Cochran's wife, Stephanie, said a Sprint operator told her the company couldn't give her the coordinates for the Aviator's location. The company told a Riverside County sheriff's detective that it wouldn't release the information without a subpoena and a $25 fee, she said.
http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/13592016.htm
Officials move to penalize Sprint over missing baby
The story had a happy ending, but it's the "what ifs" that bother Jason and Stephanie Cochran, the Riverside County Sheriff's Department, County Supervisor John Tavaglione and Temecula City Councilman Mike Naggar.
The Cochrans got their 10-month-old son, Wade, back, safe and unharmed, two hours after he was abducted by someone who stole their idling Lincoln Aviator from the driveway of their Eastvale home. But what incensed the parents, deputies who searched for the missing baby -- and now local lawmakers -- is that cellular company Sprint didn't cooperate with the sheriff's department in tracking the missing SUV.
http://www.pe.com/localnews/corona/stories/PE_News_Local_H_gps10.dd95933.html