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‘Sofia,’ days old baby abducted from Kansas home after her mother was shot, found safe in Dallas, cops hold two suspects

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><h6><span class&equals;"caption">Police found one-week-old Sofia Abarca&comma; the &OpenCurlyQuote;missing Kansas baby&comma;’  in  Dallas&comma; Texas on Saturday morning<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;170202&semi;">Newborn baby girl missing after mum&comma; Laura Abarca-Nogueda&comma; was shot dead in Wichita&comma; Kansas apartment&comma; Thursday found alive and well early Saturday in Dallas&period;<&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;170202&semi;"><strong>Officers located one-week-old Sofia Abarca at a home in Dallas&comma; Texas nearly 400 miles from where she was taken in Wichita&comma; Kansas<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;170202&semi;"><strong>Police have two suspects in custody&comma; both of whom  know the slain woman according to police<&sol;strong><&sol;span> <img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-103242" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;11&sol;laura-abarca-nogueda-and-bby-sofia-abarca1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"laura-abarca-nogueda-and-bby-sofia-abarca1" width&equals;"690" height&equals;"447" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>Laura Abarca-Nogueda seen holding her infant daughter Sofia Abarca&period; Sofia was abducted&comma; Thursday by Laura&&num;8217&semi;s suspected killers&period; Baby Sofia has just been found by Federal agents 360 miles away in Dallas&comma; Texas<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>A dragnet of federal and local law enforcement agents&comma; Saturday found a <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;2016&sol;11&sol;18&sol;cops-search-for-missing-six-day-old-sofia-abarca-her-27-year-old-after-her-mum-was-found-dead-in-a-wichita-kansas-apt-thursday&sol;"> 6-day-old newborn who was abducted <&sol;a>after her mother was murdered inside their home in Wichita&comma; Kansas in the early hours of Saturday&period; Sofia Abarca was found alive and well hundreds of miles away in Dallas&comma; Texas&period; Two suspects are currently in custody for the abduction of the baby was found alive on Saturday morning&comma; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;kwch&period;com&sol;content&sol;news&sol;One-killed-in-W-Wichita-shooting-401762825&period;html" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">KWCH 12 reports&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;a>Wichita Police Chief Gordon Ramsay announced at 4&period;30 a&period;m&period; on Saturday that a search warrant led authorities to the suspects at a home in Dallas&comma; roughly 360 miles from where the baby was taken in Wichita&comma; Kansas&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;This is the best possible outcome to a very sad case&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Chief Ramsay said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Police had been searching for the child&comma; Sofia Victoria Gonzalez Abarca&comma; after the shooting death of her 27-year-old mother&comma; Laura Abarca-Nogueda&comma; on Thursday inside her home&period; The suspects know the slain woman&comma; but Ramsay did not elaborate on the nature of their relationship&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"ra-module h">&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"ra-figure"><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-102532" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;11&sol;six-day-old-sofia-abarca-2&period;jpg" alt&equals;"six-day-old-sofia-abarca-2" width&equals;"615" height&equals;"641" &sol;><figcaption>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"ra-caption">One week old Sofia Victoria Gonzalez Abarca&comma; was taken by the assassins who killed her mother in Wichita&comma; Kan&period;<&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>The disappearance of &&num;8216&semi;Baby Sofia&&num;8217&semi; on Thursday prompted federal&comma; state and local authorities to make a desperate plea to the public for information&period; On Friday&comma; authorities asked residents to report anyone who suddenly acquired a newborn or is purchasing large amounts of formula or baby clothing&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We have no information&period; That’s why I’m here&comma; just pleading for information&comma;” Ramsay told the public on Friday&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We’re pleading the the community&comma; asking everybody to help us find Baby Sofia&period; There’s no doubt she is missing and in danger&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;Sofia’s father&comma; the murder victim&&num;8217&semi;s live-in boyfriend&comma; came home Thursday afternoon to discover Abarca-Nogueda dead and his infant daughter gone&period; Police quickly ruled him out as a suspect&comma; early on in the case&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;However by Friday evening&comma; investigators identified a possible suspect in the homicide  of the new mother and abduction of her  6-days-old infant&comma; &&num;8220&semi;established probable cause that &lpar;a&rpar; suspect abducted Sophia and fled to Dallas&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"ra-module v">&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"ra-figure"><img src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;assets&period;nydailynews&period;com&sol;polopoly&lowbar;fs&sol;1&period;2880151&period;1479569365&percnt;21&sol;img&sol;httpImage&sol;image&period;jpg&lowbar;gen&sol;derivatives&sol;article&lowbar;750&sol;sofia20n-1-web&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Baby Sofia was found in Texas&period;" &sol;><figcaption>&NewLine;<h6 class&equals;"ra-caption">Baby Sofia was found hundreds of miles away in Texas<&sol;h6>&NewLine;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>The FBI deployed a team specializing in child abductions and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children said it dispatched members of its &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Team Adam” — retired law enforcement officers — to assist in their search for Sofia&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Chief Ramsey said Sofia is expected to be reunited with her dad soon&comma;adding that while Sophia has been found&comma; Ramsay says&comma; &&num;8220&semi;this is still very much an active investigation&comma;&&num;8221&semi; with questions yet to be answered&comma; especially what motivated the shooting death of Sophia&&num;8217&semi;s mother&comma; Laura Abarca-Nogueda&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;This is a complicated case and we want to make sure we get it right&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Ramsay says&period;The Wichita PD Chief says while the story has &&num;8220&semi;the best possible outcome&comma;&&num;8221&semi; the case is tragic&period; Ramsay praised the immense contribution of the FBI analysts and Dallas police&period; He said his department also appreciates &&num;8220&semi;community patience and support through this difficult investigation&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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