Found Alive OH - Kason & Kyair Thomass - 5-Month-Old Twins - In Stolen Vehicle - *Nalah Jackson Arrested* - Columbus
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Kason Thomas has been found alive, his paternal grandmother Fonda Jackson told The Dispatch.
"My tears have turned to joy," she said shortly after the family held a press conference in Whitehall to discuss Jackson's arrest and additional updates Thursday evening.
"My tears have turned to joy," she said shortly after the family held a press conference in Whitehall to discuss Jackson's arrest and additional updates Thursday evening.
Infant twin Kason Thomas found; suspect in Columbus kidnapping arrested in Indiana
Kason Thomas has been found alive. Nalah T. Jackson, the suspect charged with kidnapping 5-month-old twins Kason and Kyair was arrested in Indiana.
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So happy to hear this!
I don’t know where they have searched. But I’m not going to assume they have not used the methods you mentioned based on no knowledge.
I choose not to lump in possible missteps in getting an Amber alert out and then jump to conclusions that LE have not searched in the right areas or used the proper methods for searching.
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Incredible news!! Can’t wait for him to be reunited with his twin!
Thank God. It feels like I've been holding my breath for days!
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It seems possible she wasn't aware of the babies and just wanted to steal the car. Maybe she wanted to do what she eventually did - use the car to get to another location where she has friends with whom she could stay. Maybe she's involved in some kind of criminal activity where she can make some fast money. JMO, IDK
Updated map, pretty simple.
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Ohio Amber Alert: Second infant found alive, suspect arrested
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – An Amber Alert that stretched across state lines ended Thursday night with a kidnapping suspect in custody and the missing 5-month-old twin brother found alive. Police…
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – An Amber Alert that stretched across state lines ended Thursday night with a kidnapping suspect in custody and the missing 5-month-old twin brother found alive.
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The police have also confirmed that Kason has been found.
"Police confirmed to NBC4’s sister stations, WXIN/WTTV, that they located Kason Thomas .... "
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"Police confirmed to NBC4’s sister stations, WXIN/WTTV, that they located Kason Thomas .... "
Ohio Amber Alert: Second infant found alive; suspect arrested
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – An Amber Alert that stretched across state lines ended Thursday night with a kidnapping suspect in custody and the missing 5-month-old twin brother found alive. Police…
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Channel 6 news just said the parents are on their way to Indy to reunite with Kason who was found alive. Praise God.
Edited as to where Kason was found has not been confirmed.
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Seriously? I haven't been as shocked by the news of a kidnapped child being found alive since Elizabeth Smart! This is such wonderful news.
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It seems it is not often we hear a good news outcome. Merry Christmas everyone - especially Kason, Kyair, their family, the search police, and the alert public who helped so much!
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OOOPS POSTED BEFORE I READ ABOVE. GREAT NEWS!!!!!!
TRANSCRIPTION OF PRESS CONFERENCE
22ND DECEMBER.
Chief - Good afternoon. We're here to give you the latest update on the abduction case involving Ky'air and Kason. At approximately 2:00 pm., Nalah Jackson was taken into custody in Indianapolis by Indianapolis Metro Police, and she was positively identified by Indianapolis Metro Police and the FBI. This occurred after receiving several tips that she was in the Indianapolis area. At this moment, she is being questioned by the police. However, Kason Thomas was not with her at the time of her arrest.
We want to, again, thank our partners for all their help in this case, thus far, and their continuous efforts to locate Kason. Our officers, detective sergeants, lieutenants, and commanders have been working around the clock since Ky'air and Kason went missing, late Monday night. Again, we will not stop until we find Kason. The FBI is offering a $10,000 reward for the safe return of Kason. If you know anything about his whereabouts, please call our tip line at 614-645-4701 or 1800callFBI.
We are relieved to have located the suspect, and it takes us one step closer to locating Kason, but we will not stop searching until he is brought home safely. I'm going to ask Deputy Chief Weir to step up to provide more details about the arrest and the timeline that led up to the arrest. Reminder, this is an ongoing investigation, so there will be some information we cannot provide at this time, but we will provide the best information that we can. Thank you.
Deputy Chief - Good evening. Over the past 12-24 hours, our officers have followed up and received over three dozen tips from community members both locally here in Columbus and Central Ohio and throughout the state. Overnight, they responded to those tips. They followed it up. They interviewed people. They tried to retrieve video of reported sightings. They talked to numerous individuals in the community. When we received tips from jurisdictions outside of central Ohio, officers relayed those to the jurisdiction in charge of that area and they were able to follow up in that manner. This morning, late this morning, on our hotline to 645-4701 number, that we provided to the community, we received several calls, generated from Indiana, from some individuals who were relaying concerns or information that they believed that they had spotted Nalah in Indianapolis. Our detective was able to corroborate some of that information. At a certain point during that discussion, they believe that it became more of an emergency situation, in terms of a current, ongoing... they were witnessing Miss Jackson, you know, in person at that time. At that time, our detective implored those individuals to call 911 in Indiana and ask for IMPD to respond immediately. Over the course of the next several hours it was an ongoing.. we know that IMPD was responding. We received word at approximately 2:00 pm that they had an individual stopped that they believed to be Miss Jackson. Over the course of the next hour or so, our detectives worked with IMPD to try to corroborate that and her identity. She was positively identified, through fingerprints, as Nalah Jackson and taken into custody.
At this time, like Chief Bryant said, Kason Thomas has not been located. We are imploring the community in central Ohio, in the Greater Dayton area, and in the Greater Indianapolis area - if you have any information regarding this crime or the whereabouts of the baby, please contact us as soon as possible.
Three detectives from Columbus Division of police are en-route to Indianapolis as we speak. They will be coordinating with IMPD and the FBI to further this investigation. The Ohio State Highway Patrol has information, the current information, to update the Amber Alert locally in Ohio and the State of Indiana has information and they are working on extending that Amber Alert into the State of Indiana, asking for information to locate the vehicle and for Kason Thomas. That's the update from us.
Chief - We'll take any questions.
Reporter - Has Miss Jackson said anything to investigators in Indianapolis as to where the child is?. Did she bring the child with her to Indianapolis.?. What's she been saying?.
Chief - We don't have that information. She's being currently questioned.
Reporter - How would you describe her mental state?. Or, how's she responding to (inaudible)?.
Chief - We've not laid eyes on her personally. Again, she's in Indianapolis, so we don't have that information.
Reporter - Have you guys been able to find if somebody's been helping her in Indie?. Kind of hiding her out for the last few days?.
Chief - We're hopeful to find all that out. This is really very fresh and very new for us. We wanted to get that information out as soon as possible, but at this point we don't have any additional information.
Reporter - I understand that she may have been located at a drug house. Is that the case?. Was she located where substances were being used?.
Chief - That is not where she was taken into custody.
Reporter - Where was she taken into custody?.
Chief - My understanding is it was on the streets.
Reporter - Downtown or a certain neighborhood?.
Chief - I'm not sure about the actual location in Indianapolis.
Reporter - Yesterday you talked about trying to get in touch with her family and that still hadn't happened yet. Has that since happened and has that led to anything?.
Chief - No. Unfortunately it has not happened. We were not able to get in touch with her family and be able to have that connection that we were looking for.
Reporter - Are they uncooperative or are they just challenging to reach?.
Deputy Chief - Yeah. I believe it's more just the challenge to reach them. Whether we have the correct information. Whether we have updated phone numbers or addresses. At this time, I know that we made a concerted effort to reach out to locate the mother. At this time, we haven't been able to do so. But we don't believe that she's necessarily trying to avoid us. However, we haven't been able to reach her.
Reporter - Does she have any ties to Indy?.
Chief - Not that we know of, right now.
Reporter - Any reason to believe that Kason is in Indianapolis or still in Columbus?.
Chief - We're not taking anything off the table, which is why we're continuing to work with our partners, FBI, as well as Indianapolis Metro Police. We don't know at this point where Kason is. That's why we're imploring the public, anyone, as little of information as you may think it is, it could be important. If you saw someone with a baby. If you saw a baby carriage on the street, whatever you may have seen, please call the tip line or please call 1800callFBI so that we can get that information and try to vet it.
Reporter - And what about the car?. Was that found in Indy?. Do you know where that is?.
Chief - We do not know the location of the car, at this time.
Reporter - The last time it was seen... the last time you told us it was in Huber Heights, was seen on the video. Any idea if it was in Dayton, in Indianapolis, Indiana?.
Chief - We don't know. The last location that we saw the car was where we told you, so we don't have any additional information.
Reporter - How concerning is it, obviously, we've been talking the last few days about this winter storm we have coming - She's been discovered but the baby hasn't. Just for you guys, personally, how concerning is it that this baby still hasn't been found?.
Chief - It's very concerning, which is why we're imploring anyone that may have any information... If she dropped the baby off, if somebody is at someone's home and they've never seen a baby before and all of a sudden there's a baby there. Any information that they can give us, regardless of how small or insignificant someone may think it is, could lead to us actually locating Kason. So we're asking - please give us a call.
Reporter - These tips that came in. They were anonymous tips?. They were people that knew her?. They text she was in Indianapolis..
Chief - There were several tips from people that I don't believe they knew her. They were people that saw or heard about the information. Whether it was through social media, whether it was on the news that believed that they located her.
Reporter - And there's been large search parties being organised by (inaudible) families. Is this something that you would want to happen, large canvassing effort by the community?.
Chief - Well, it never hurts when anyone is involved in trying to, especially, locate a missing child, so we appreciate the community's efforts. We appreciate all law enforcement efforts to try to locate Kason and bring him home, so we would never say that you shouldn't convene a search party, because they may provide valuable information. So we've been very appreciative of the public's ability to step up and help us try to find this baby.
Reporter - Was Jackson with anyone else when she was arrested?. Was she in a car, just walking on the streets?. What is some of the information of what happened there?.
Chief - So what I will tell you is, at this point, there are certain things that we're not going to discuss for the preservation of the investigation. We do know that she was taken into custody. As you know, we've been very transparent and doing briefings. As soon as we're able to give more information, we will provide that.
Reporter - Can you talk about what the conversation may have been like with Kason's parents, after hearing (inaudible)?.
Assistant Chief - Sure. We thought it was really important when we had confirmed that our suspect was in custody in Indianapolis, to let the family know about that. Had a conversation with both Mom and Dad to let them know that we did have Miss Jackson in custody and that their child was not with her.
Reporter - With her being arrested in Indiana, are they allowed to issue an Amber Alert in Indiana now for the child?.
Assistant Chief - They are. Deputy Chief Weir mentioned that briefly and that process was begun. If you were here yesterday OSP explained that process and how that works. That process was begun once we confirmed that she was in custody. Obviously, we have corroborative evidence that she was in a different state which allows us to put out an Amber Alert in that state and that process has begun.
Reporter - How does this change, or factor into the equation, whether this is a federal investigation or how federal investigators may take a role in this?.
Chief - Absolutely, now that she has crossed state lines, it absolutely can be a federal investigation.
Thank you.
TRANSCRIPTION OF PRESS CONFERENCE
22ND DECEMBER.
Chief - Good afternoon. We're here to give you the latest update on the abduction case involving Ky'air and Kason. At approximately 2:00 pm., Nalah Jackson was taken into custody in Indianapolis by Indianapolis Metro Police, and she was positively identified by Indianapolis Metro Police and the FBI. This occurred after receiving several tips that she was in the Indianapolis area. At this moment, she is being questioned by the police. However, Kason Thomas was not with her at the time of her arrest.
We want to, again, thank our partners for all their help in this case, thus far, and their continuous efforts to locate Kason. Our officers, detective sergeants, lieutenants, and commanders have been working around the clock since Ky'air and Kason went missing, late Monday night. Again, we will not stop until we find Kason. The FBI is offering a $10,000 reward for the safe return of Kason. If you know anything about his whereabouts, please call our tip line at 614-645-4701 or 1800callFBI.
We are relieved to have located the suspect, and it takes us one step closer to locating Kason, but we will not stop searching until he is brought home safely. I'm going to ask Deputy Chief Weir to step up to provide more details about the arrest and the timeline that led up to the arrest. Reminder, this is an ongoing investigation, so there will be some information we cannot provide at this time, but we will provide the best information that we can. Thank you.
Deputy Chief - Good evening. Over the past 12-24 hours, our officers have followed up and received over three dozen tips from community members both locally here in Columbus and Central Ohio and throughout the state. Overnight, they responded to those tips. They followed it up. They interviewed people. They tried to retrieve video of reported sightings. They talked to numerous individuals in the community. When we received tips from jurisdictions outside of central Ohio, officers relayed those to the jurisdiction in charge of that area and they were able to follow up in that manner. This morning, late this morning, on our hotline to 645-4701 number, that we provided to the community, we received several calls, generated from Indiana, from some individuals who were relaying concerns or information that they believed that they had spotted Nalah in Indianapolis. Our detective was able to corroborate some of that information. At a certain point during that discussion, they believe that it became more of an emergency situation, in terms of a current, ongoing... they were witnessing Miss Jackson, you know, in person at that time. At that time, our detective implored those individuals to call 911 in Indiana and ask for IMPD to respond immediately. Over the course of the next several hours it was an ongoing.. we know that IMPD was responding. We received word at approximately 2:00 pm that they had an individual stopped that they believed to be Miss Jackson. Over the course of the next hour or so, our detectives worked with IMPD to try to corroborate that and her identity. She was positively identified, through fingerprints, as Nalah Jackson and taken into custody.
At this time, like Chief Bryant said, Kason Thomas has not been located. We are imploring the community in central Ohio, in the Greater Dayton area, and in the Greater Indianapolis area - if you have any information regarding this crime or the whereabouts of the baby, please contact us as soon as possible.
Three detectives from Columbus Division of police are en-route to Indianapolis as we speak. They will be coordinating with IMPD and the FBI to further this investigation. The Ohio State Highway Patrol has information, the current information, to update the Amber Alert locally in Ohio and the State of Indiana has information and they are working on extending that Amber Alert into the State of Indiana, asking for information to locate the vehicle and for Kason Thomas. That's the update from us.
Chief - We'll take any questions.
Reporter - Has Miss Jackson said anything to investigators in Indianapolis as to where the child is?. Did she bring the child with her to Indianapolis.?. What's she been saying?.
Chief - We don't have that information. She's being currently questioned.
Reporter - How would you describe her mental state?. Or, how's she responding to (inaudible)?.
Chief - We've not laid eyes on her personally. Again, she's in Indianapolis, so we don't have that information.
Reporter - Have you guys been able to find if somebody's been helping her in Indie?. Kind of hiding her out for the last few days?.
Chief - We're hopeful to find all that out. This is really very fresh and very new for us. We wanted to get that information out as soon as possible, but at this point we don't have any additional information.
Reporter - I understand that she may have been located at a drug house. Is that the case?. Was she located where substances were being used?.
Chief - That is not where she was taken into custody.
Reporter - Where was she taken into custody?.
Chief - My understanding is it was on the streets.
Reporter - Downtown or a certain neighborhood?.
Chief - I'm not sure about the actual location in Indianapolis.
Reporter - Yesterday you talked about trying to get in touch with her family and that still hadn't happened yet. Has that since happened and has that led to anything?.
Chief - No. Unfortunately it has not happened. We were not able to get in touch with her family and be able to have that connection that we were looking for.
Reporter - Are they uncooperative or are they just challenging to reach?.
Deputy Chief - Yeah. I believe it's more just the challenge to reach them. Whether we have the correct information. Whether we have updated phone numbers or addresses. At this time, I know that we made a concerted effort to reach out to locate the mother. At this time, we haven't been able to do so. But we don't believe that she's necessarily trying to avoid us. However, we haven't been able to reach her.
Reporter - Does she have any ties to Indy?.
Chief - Not that we know of, right now.
Reporter - Any reason to believe that Kason is in Indianapolis or still in Columbus?.
Chief - We're not taking anything off the table, which is why we're continuing to work with our partners, FBI, as well as Indianapolis Metro Police. We don't know at this point where Kason is. That's why we're imploring the public, anyone, as little of information as you may think it is, it could be important. If you saw someone with a baby. If you saw a baby carriage on the street, whatever you may have seen, please call the tip line or please call 1800callFBI so that we can get that information and try to vet it.
Reporter - And what about the car?. Was that found in Indy?. Do you know where that is?.
Chief - We do not know the location of the car, at this time.
Reporter - The last time it was seen... the last time you told us it was in Huber Heights, was seen on the video. Any idea if it was in Dayton, in Indianapolis, Indiana?.
Chief - We don't know. The last location that we saw the car was where we told you, so we don't have any additional information.
Reporter - How concerning is it, obviously, we've been talking the last few days about this winter storm we have coming - She's been discovered but the baby hasn't. Just for you guys, personally, how concerning is it that this baby still hasn't been found?.
Chief - It's very concerning, which is why we're imploring anyone that may have any information... If she dropped the baby off, if somebody is at someone's home and they've never seen a baby before and all of a sudden there's a baby there. Any information that they can give us, regardless of how small or insignificant someone may think it is, could lead to us actually locating Kason. So we're asking - please give us a call.
Reporter - These tips that came in. They were anonymous tips?. They were people that knew her?. They text she was in Indianapolis..
Chief - There were several tips from people that I don't believe they knew her. They were people that saw or heard about the information. Whether it was through social media, whether it was on the news that believed that they located her.
Reporter - And there's been large search parties being organised by (inaudible) families. Is this something that you would want to happen, large canvassing effort by the community?.
Chief - Well, it never hurts when anyone is involved in trying to, especially, locate a missing child, so we appreciate the community's efforts. We appreciate all law enforcement efforts to try to locate Kason and bring him home, so we would never say that you shouldn't convene a search party, because they may provide valuable information. So we've been very appreciative of the public's ability to step up and help us try to find this baby.
Reporter - Was Jackson with anyone else when she was arrested?. Was she in a car, just walking on the streets?. What is some of the information of what happened there?.
Chief - So what I will tell you is, at this point, there are certain things that we're not going to discuss for the preservation of the investigation. We do know that she was taken into custody. As you know, we've been very transparent and doing briefings. As soon as we're able to give more information, we will provide that.
Reporter - Can you talk about what the conversation may have been like with Kason's parents, after hearing (inaudible)?.
Assistant Chief - Sure. We thought it was really important when we had confirmed that our suspect was in custody in Indianapolis, to let the family know about that. Had a conversation with both Mom and Dad to let them know that we did have Miss Jackson in custody and that their child was not with her.
Reporter - With her being arrested in Indiana, are they allowed to issue an Amber Alert in Indiana now for the child?.
Assistant Chief - They are. Deputy Chief Weir mentioned that briefly and that process was begun. If you were here yesterday OSP explained that process and how that works. That process was begun once we confirmed that she was in custody. Obviously, we have corroborative evidence that she was in a different state which allows us to put out an Amber Alert in that state and that process has begun.
Reporter - How does this change, or factor into the equation, whether this is a federal investigation or how federal investigators may take a role in this?.
Chief - Absolutely, now that she has crossed state lines, it absolutely can be a federal investigation.
Thank you.
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Such wonderful news! I've been so worried about Baby Kason! He has the most adorable face!
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