MONTREAL - Robert Harvey, 52, was before a judge Saturday on charges of armed robbery and car theft after allegedly stealing a car which also contained a young baby.
He is charged with having carjacked a vehicle that contained a two-month-old baby girl Friday afternoon at 1 p.m.
Montreal police had issued an alert asking for the public to help track down a Nissan Pathfinder stolen at the corner of le Breton and Langelier.
The vehicle was found abandoned with the baby inside about half an hour later on the corner of Mount Royal and de La Roche after the suspect himself called 9-1-1 to give police the location of the SUV, police spokesperson Const. Anie Lemieux said.
Harvey was arrested moments later, Lemieux said. He is known to police and was arraigned Saturday by video conference on charges of car theft and armed robbery, even though he was unarmed, Lemieux said. He will not face a charge of kidnapping, she added. His bail hearing takes place Monday.
The baby was taken to hospital as a precaution but she was unharmed.
Lemieux says that both parents were with the infant when they stopped off at an apartment. The baby's father went in the apartment while the mother stayed in the vehicle, Lemieux said.
That's when the suspect allegedly jumped in the vehicle through the driver side door and threatened the mother to get out. As soon as she did, he sped off with the vehicle.
Lemieux said it appears as though the suspect did not realize there was a baby in the back seat of the vehicle, and once he did he called 911 himself.
The suspect was caught when some police officers spotted him on Mount Royal not far from where the vehicle was found, saw that he fit the description released about a half hour earlier and confronted him.
