involved in the kidnap of 3 year old Briant Rodriguez. The suspect on the left is approximately 18 years old and the suspect on the right is approximately 24 years old. (Courtesy of the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department)
Millan, her husband and their six children have only lived in the home about three months. For some unknown reason no information is yet available on the people who previously lived in the family’s home.
Both parents deny that the family was involved in any illegal activity and said they do not know why anyone would take their baby. Sheriff’s spokeswoman Jodi Miller said the kidnappers have not contacted the family for ransom and “we are concerned the child has been taken across the border.”
Briant Rodriguez was kidnapped from his home in the 8000 block of Pedley Road on Sunday after the two gunmen spent about 20 minutes ransacking the home while his mother and five of her children were tied up, San Bernardino sheriff’s officials say.
One of Briant’s siblings was able to free himself and untied his family members.
Also taken from the home was Millan’s cell phone, so she made the emergency call from a nearby liquor store.
“It’s horrifying,” sheriff’s Lt. Rick Ells told the Associated Press. “I don’t think I could impress on you how rare a kidnapping like this is.”
Briant’s father, who lives with the family, was at work at the time of the robbery and kidnapping, Ells said.
“The family is saying there’s no motive and they do not know the kidnappers,” Ells said, adding that the kidnapping does not appear to be a family abduction.
Briant’s mother told sheriff’s officials that she heard a vehicle door slammed just outside the family’s home when the men