From Bill Kaempffer, Bridgeport police spokesman:
A 30-year-old faces charges after he allegedly stripped naked, snatched his girlfriend’s baby and ran through traffic on Interstate 95.
Santos Rodriguez, of Burr Road, was arrested. The baby didn’t suffer serious injuries.
Police were called early Saturday morning at about 4 a.m. The mother of the baby called police and said that her boyfriend, who appeared to be under the influence of drugs, had run out of her house naked while carrying her naked infant son. While en route, Officer Jeffrey Holtz was flagged down by a gas station manager who reported seeing a naked man running east on Fairfield Avenue and that he appeared to be carrying something.
Police in the area immediately started searching for Rodriguez and the baby. A short time later, police were notified that the Connecticut State Police had Rodriguez and the child on the exit ramp of I-95. Police also learned that Rodriguez had run across both the northbound and southbound lanes of the highway while holding the child.
CSP reported dispatchers had received numerous 911 calls from motorists. As police arrived, a passing motorist pulled over on the ramp to help. Rodriguez opened the passenger door of the vehicle, put the baby on the front seat and sat down on the roadway. He was handcuffed there.
The child was taken to Bridgeport Hospital to be checked out.
There, the mother told Holtz what had transpired: She said Rodriguez had come home after a night out and was acting erratically. He had a history of abusing PCP. Stumbling around, he said someone was after him again and said that she was the devil, at one point throwing a Bible at her.
He then stripped off his clothes, snatched the child from his playpen and began removing the child’s clothes. He then pushed his way past the mother and ran out of the house.
Rodriguez was charged with first-degree kidnapping, risk of injury to a minor, reckless endangerment and disorderly conduct.
He was held on $100,000 bond.
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Mojo,
This is not the first time in recent months the CT Post has shared a story of “PCP induced streaking.” Apparently the drug provides the ingester with such a body heat feeling they can’t wait to get their clothes off. Modesty is not the concern or focus at the moment of a disoriented individual.
Usually I am writing about governance and municipal money issues. You might have expected me to point at such a figure as a former property owner taxpayer stripped naked by high taxes and crazily trying to escape to the suburbs. But there are no laughs in that storyline either.
So where are police, school establishment or mental health agency reports on PCP drug use in the City? On the rise? Time for a CT Post feature? God help the folks who allow themselves to become servants to such habits. Time will tell.