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Reporter arrested at hospital on kidnapping charges

Healthcare Security Weekly, April 9, 2007

A Texas television reporter, who dressed in hospital scrubs and was apparently trying to produce a story on hospital security in the labor and delivery area, was arrested by police and faces kidnapping charges.

Amarillo police arrested KCBD reporter Cecelia Jones around 9 p.m. on March 27 just two weeks after a baby-kidnapping case in Lubbock, TX that drew national attention, reported KAMC-TV news. Jones walked into Northwest Texas Hospital in Amarillo, but nursing staff became alarmed of a possible infant kidnapping and called hospital security, according to Amarillo police. Jones then walked next door to the labor and delivery floor at Baptist Saint Anthony's Hospital, where nurses said she tried to hide from them and security.

Jones was eventually found and held until police arrived and arrested her. She was booked into the Potter County Detention Center on two counts of attempted aggravated kidnapping and released on bond the next day. Dan Jackson, KCBD general manager, said the station was doing an undercover investigation on security measures.

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