Authorities have charged a man with kidnapping for allegedly abducting a two-year-old boy in rural Pope County. POPE COUNTY (FOX 9) - The man who authorities say kidnapped a 2-year-old boy in rural Pope County last week, triggering an AMBER Alert, allegedly used a window to abduct the child from the room the boy shared with his mother while she was out working and other members of the family were sleeping, according to a criminal complaint filed in district court today.The Pope County Attorney's Office has charged Victor Ramirez, aka Benigno Alvarrez, with kidnapping the boy from a home in the small town of Westport, Minnesota, on Thursday, March 17.
His bond was set at $1 million without conditions, or 500,000 with conditions, including that he not enter the victim's house, have any unsupervised contact with minors or leave the state.The complaint lays out a detailed, troubling narrative pieced together by investigators:Last Thursday morning, the boy's mother came home after working a night shift at a nearby farm.
After staying up for a while, she went to her bedroom and discovered her son was missing. Other family members in the house told her that they had put the child to bed around 8 p.m, according to the complaint.
The family searched the house and found a note, written in Spanish and English, asking for forgiveness for taking the child, "indicating that there was a prior plan to do so," the complaint says.The mother called 911 at 4:29 a.m.