An Arkansas man has been arrested for allegedly trying to kidnap a 2-year-old girl from her mother’s truck parked outside a Walmart, where police said he hid under a pile of clothes.
The victim told the police she discovered a stranger, later identified as Timothy Caudle, 58, in her truck after she returned from a shopping trip and placed her tot in the backseat around 7 p.m. Monday.
The mother told authorities the “unknown man” was concealed “under some clothing inside the vehicle,” the Sherwood Police Department said in a press release.
The vehicle break-in that occurred in the parking lot of the Walmart Supercenter on Highway 107 in Sherwood then took a truly terrifying turn, when Caudle allegedly tried to snatch the woman’s child.
“The victim stated she began yelling at the male subject to get out of the vehicle, and she said he reached for her daughter,” police said.