ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – A man was arrested after police said he ran into St. Petersburg traffic with a baby Thursday afternoon.
The St. Pete Police Department said Treyvon Maynor, 21, was arrested on multiple charges, including aggravated child abuse, burglary with assault or battery, false imprisonment and resisting an officer without violence.
What we know:
Officers said they were called to assist with a domestic dispute just after 3 p.m. near 34th Street South and 15th Avenue South. Officials said Maynor’s domestic partner had left home with her child.
Booking photo of Treyvon Maynor. Courtesy: St. Petersburg Police Department.
A friend picked her up in a vehicle, but Maynor caught up with the vehicle and blocked the car, according to St. Pete police.
That’s when investigators said he went inside the vehicle and assaulted his domestic partner and took the one-year-old girl out of her car seat and ran off with the child on his back.
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“He came back, got in the car, he choked his domestic partner, and then he threatened them. He unbuckled his little girl and grabbed her out of the car seat, grabbed her with her little hands just on his back like this and took off running,” said Yolanda Fernandez, the public information officer for SPPD.
Dig deeper:
Officials said he ran across a parking lot and eventually ran into traffic on 34th Street South near 15th Avenue South. SPPD officers ran after him, and one was able to run behind him and grab the baby’s legs and pull her from his back.
“You see him kind of do this and throw the baby off — she grabbed the baby, and he kept going. The officer was right there, they took him down and arrested him,” said Fernandez.
The child wasn’t hurt during the incident, according to SPPD. Other officers were also able to stop Maynor after that and arrest him.
“It’s a very busy intersection in the middle of a weekday it could have ended very badly,” said Fernandez.
Police learned Maynor had an open felony warrant from July for hitting someone over the age of 65.
The Source: The information in this story was released by the St. Petersburg Police Department.