 LUMBERTON — A 911 call from a man who mistook a doll in a parked truck for an unresponsive infant led to the recovery of a stolen vehicle and a 3-week-old baby who was inside, the Lumberton Police Department said. Lumberton Police Department Capt. Terry Parker tells The Fayetteville Observer that a woman reported her pickup truck stolen and 3-week-old baby missing Monday. Parker says the woman was taking two other children inside a house when someone stole the vehicle and baby inside it. The truck, with the baby still inside, was abandoned about 10 minutes later in the parking lot of Billy Cox's Grocery and Market on N.C. 41, about three miles away, Parker said. Several minutes later, a man walking through the parking lot noticed a window was down on the truck and looked inside. "He saw a baby doll laying in the floor and thought it was an unresponsive child," Parker said.
– A man saw a doll inside a parked truck and called police about an unresponsive infant, leading to the recovery of a stolen truck and a very real baby, reports the AP. Lumberton Police Department Capt. Terry Parker tells the Fayetteville Observer that a woman reported her pickup truck stolen and 3-week-old baby missing Monday. Parker says the woman was taking two other children inside a house when someone stole the vehicle and baby inside it. Police issued an alert, and Parker says the truck and baby were abandoned in a nearby parking lot minutes later. He says a man walking past the truck noticed a window was down and peered inside. Parker says the man saw a doll lying on the floor and called police, who found the infant uninjured in a car seat in the back of the truck. No arrests had been made as of Tuesday.