Toddler Found Unharmed but Scared, Cold After Carjacking

A body camera recorded the moment when the officer discovered the girl, who was crying and cold.

Police are now looking for any shred of evidence -fingerprints – hair – DNA- that could lead them to the kidnapper.

The vehicle theft and kidnapping happened Saturday night at the Smith’s on Lomas Boulevard near San Pedro.

Police found the vehicle abandoned some hours later, but without the toddler inside.

“I was using my spotlight and I saw a ball of purple, in the middle of the parking lot and I thought that’s weird and I drove into the parking lot and I could tell it was a kiddo”, he said at a press conference.

“Hi sweetheart, you ok?” he says as he rushes over to scoop her up.

“I don’t know what he was thinking or doing”, Drobik said. The girl was crying and cold.

“She was out there by herself in freezing temperatures with just a little jacket on”.

Poccia was among those who refused to stop searching.

She can be heard telling him that she is cold. They comforted her while they waited for the ambulance to get there. She is expected to be okay.

Officer Chris Poccia spotted her and ran to meet her, making sure she was all right. He says finding Caraline was a group effort.

“While this was a terrible act, we had a great outcome with little Caroline being found unharmed”, Officer Tanner Tixier said.

Caraline was found three miles away, sitting on a cement parking block, in a parking lot. He brought the cross to the hospital where the child was evaluated, and her mother explained that Caraline’s grandmother had given her the cross earlier in the day.

“We’re guessing he dumped her between point A and point B”, he said.