ATLANTA — Police have released body camera video of officers rescuing two sisters from a trailer in Southwest Atlanta two days after they were kidnapped.
Some of the responding police officers said they could hear crying from the trailer, and then they found the two girls and Lakesha Brown.
They said the trailer was “unclean and unsuitable”
The find brought to an end the two-day search for sisters Zola Cooper, 4, and Norah Cooper, 11.
Officers found Brown hiding under a blanket with the two girls right next to her.
“Do not move or I will shoot you,” one of the officers said on the video. “You got the baby?”
You can hear the children crying as officers work to bring them to safety.
Channel 2’s Ashlyn Webb obtained the 9-page arrest warrant for Brown on Tuesday.
It said investigators found Brown with the girls after Brown’s phone pinged off of Sylvan Road, about five miles from where they were last seen.
We don’t know how long Brown and the girls had been in the trailer, but investigators said the trailer was unclean and unsuitable, and that Brown endangered and jeopardized the children’s health.
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Temperatures reached around 97 degrees when the girls were found, and the trailer had no air conditioning.
Brown is now in the Fulton County Jail with no bond.
She is facing charges of kidnapping and cruelty to children.
Webb also learned that Brown was indicted in a nearly identical crime in Alabama.
Brown still has not stood trial after being accused of kidnapping a 4-day-old baby boy outside Birmingham in 2021.
Webb spoke to the mother of that child, who said the kidnapping of the two Atlanta girls was 100% avoidable.
“You can’t trust nobody,” Elicia Redding said.
She said brown offered to help support her during her pregnancy.
Redding said she had known Brown for nearly a year when Brown offered to babysit the girls.
Police say instead, Brown kidnapped them.
“I thought it was just going to be a day out. I trusted her. And she broke that trust,” Redding said.
She said she believes this would never have happened if Brown hadn’t been released on a $100 ‚000 bond in her son’s case.
Brown pled not guilty last year and was set to stand trial in May. But prosecutors said she never showed up.
Alabama prosecutors have now filed a motion to revoke her bond after her arrest here on Monday.
They want her extradited back to Alabama for prosecution.
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