Posted on June 17, 2010.
"Please, I ask them to release my son. Give him to me"
By Michael Webster: Investigative journalist syndicated. May 6, 2009 at 12:00 PT
Mother of abducted three-year low, Briant Rosalina Rodriguez Millan embraces his son's shirt against his chest during a news conference at the sheriff's San Bernardino County prosecutors in San Bernardino. Young Rodriguez was forced gunpoint from his modest house in San Bernardino by two armed men during a home invasion Sunday. "They took my child, said:" I'll take the child to Mexico and I'll kill him, "said the mother of Briant
Mother Briant has spent more than five hours for investigators and sketch artists on Tuesday based on painful memories to help compose images of two men suspected of tying her and the youngest of her five children Sunday afternoon before removing the boy.
Briant Mother continues to make desperate appeals for the safe return of her son.
"Please, I am asking them to release my son. Give him to me," she said, as she says. "Why did they take? Let him go. Do not hurt my boy. My child, my life. It's a good boy. "
The suspects are both said to be thin, Spanish-speaking Latino men. One is said to 18 years, 5-foot-8 and wore a black cap, blue jeans and a green T-shirt. The second suspect was about 24 years old, 5-feet-10 and wearing a black shirt, black trousers, black boots and a white scarf.
The Department of San Bernardino County Sheriff's released these composite sketches of suspects involved in the kidnapping of three years Briant Rodriguez. The suspect left is about 18 years and the suspect on the right is about 24 years. (Courtesy of the Sheriff's Department San Bernardino County)
Millan, her husband and their six children have lived in the house about three months. For some reason, no information is yet available about people who lived in the family home.
Both parents deny that the family has been involved in any illegal activity and said they do not know why anyone would want to take their baby. Sheriff's spokeswoman Jodi Miller said the kidnappers have not contacted the family for ransom and "we are concerned about the child was taken to the border."
Briant Rodriguez was abducted from his home in the 8000 block of Pedley Road on Sunday after two armed men spent about 20 minutes from the house ransacked while his mother and five of his children were tied up, officials at San Bernardino Sheriff said.
One of the brothers and sisters to break free Briant and untied the members of his family.
Also taken from the house was cellphone Millan, when she made the emergency call from a liquor store nearby.
"It's horrible," Lieutenant Sheriff Rick Ells The Associated Press. "I do not think I could understand to give you a rare collection like this."
Briant father, who lives with the family, was at work at the time of the robbery and kidnapping, "said Ells.
"The family says there was no reason and they do not know the kidnappers," Ells, adding that the removal does not seem to be an abduction of the family.
Briant mother told sheriff's officers that she heard a car door slam just outside the family home when the men left, leading him to believe that the armed men fled by car.
spokesman for the sheriff of San Bernardino Jodi Miller told The Associated Press that authorities along the Mexican border have been put on alert, and FBI investigators also assist in the investigation. Detectives stressed that parents are not Briant suspects.
Less than 200 abductions abroad.