Kidnapping charges dropped against BYUI student

The kidnapping charge filed against a Brigham Young University–Idaho student accused of walking off with a baby in the Idaho Falls Costco will be dismissed, county officials announced Thursday.

During a press conference, Bonneville County Prosecutor Randy Neal explained why his office no longer believes the evidence supports continuing the felony case against 24-year-old Michael Garrison Raine.

Neal presented several angles of Costco surveillance footage from Nov. 24 that do not support an attempted kidnapping claim. Investigators did not have these angles when Raine was arrested, and Neal said the new footage changed his analysis of the case…

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