Stranger Kidnaps 3-month-old Baby From Home While Grandmother Was Unloading Groceries

Police in San Jose are searching for a yet-to-be-identified man who was seen on surveillance video kidnapping 3-month-old Brandon Cuellar from his family’s apartment while his grandmother was unloading groceries.

The stranger kidnapped the 3-month-old baby in the San Francisco Bay Area on Monday.

The man walked into a home in San Jose around 1 p.m. and left with the child, Brandon Cuellar. Police released a video clip that shows the man walking down the sidewalk holding a baby carrier covered by a white blanket.

“The family does not recognize this suspect,” police said in a Twitter post.

The baby was taken while his grandmother was unloading groceries, San Jose Police Sgt. Christian Camarillo told NBC Bay Area. The child’s mother was at work at the time and the father is incarcerated.

“In that short amount of time, someone entered the apartment … and left with the baby,” Camarillo said.

Police have not issued an Amber Alert for Brandon because investigators do not have a vehicle description.

San Jose is a city in the South Bay Area, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) from San Francisco. Brandon was last seen wearing a white long-sleeved onesie with dinosaurs.

The grandmother did not see the man enter the apartment and leave with the baby, according to cops.

FBI agents spent the night going door-to-door in the area and interviewing potential witnesses.

The kidnapping suspect was described as a man wearing black pants, a dark-blue shirt, grey shoes with white trim, a grey baseball hat, and a black face mask.

“Today someone is walking around with a 3-month-old baby that they did not have yesterday,” Camarillo said. “If you have this baby, please give that baby back to its mother. We can deal with consequences after.”

The sergeant added that both Brandon’s mother and his grandmother are having a “very, very bad time” not knowing where he is.

We hope the kidnapper is arrested and Brandon is found safe.