Crime & Safety
MISSING CHILDREN: Police Search For Two Abducted Children
Charles Samuel Baines Sr. took his sons -- Charles Samuel Baines, 10, and Nathaniel James Baines, 9 -- Wednesday from their home while their mother slept.
Authorities today sought the public's help in locating a 36-year-old man with mental health issues and a "Drug Cartel" facial tattoo who took his two sons from the Harbor City home of his mother, the children's custodial grandparent.
Charles Samuel Baines Sr. took his sons -- Charles Samuel Baines, 10, and Nathaniel James Baines, 9 -- Wednesday while his mother slept at her residence in the 24800 block of Normandie Avenue and stole her car, a red 2008, four-door Kia Spectra with a license plate number 6FMN288, Los Angeles County sheriff's officials said.
Baines was described as a 6-foot, 4-inch tall black male weighing 270 pounds with a shaved head and a facial tattoo with the words "Drug Cartel" on his left cheek.
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Baines currently is on parole and has mental health issues.
Additional investigations revealed that he may be in Mexico, authorities said.
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Anyone with any information regarding the whereabouts of Baines or his sons was asked to call the sheriff's Carson station at (310) 83-1123, or to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers by dialing 800-222-TIPS (8477), texting the letters TIPLA plus your tip to CRIMES (274637).
-- City News Service
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