{"id":380452,"date":"2026-07-21T03:07:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T03:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/380452\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T03:07:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T03:07:27","slug":"man-charged-with-kidnapping-after-allegedly-taking-1-year-old-relative-during-wedding-without-permission-hcso-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/380452\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with kidnapping after allegedly taking 1-year-old relative during wedding without permission, HCSO says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; A man is behind bars after he allegedly took a toddler during a wedding without the parents&#8217; permission, according to the Harris County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Michael Brown, 29, was arrested and charged with kidnapping, Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">During a wedding happening in the 15400 block of Vantage Parkway on Saturday, Brown allegedly took a one-year-old relative from the celebration and drove away, deputies said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to investigators, Brown allegedly had been drinking before he got behind the wheel and did not have a car seat in his vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Brown and the toddler were later found 18 miles away from the wedding venue, parked on the side of the road, Gonzalez said. The toddler was unharmed, found on Brown&#8217;s chest while he lay asleep, Gonzalez added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">HCSO did not say whether Brown will face additional charges.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KTRK-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRIS COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) &#8212; A man is behind bars after he allegedly took a toddler during a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[134417,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-380452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-134417","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}