Inmates Help Deputies In Florida Rescue Infant Accidentally Locked In Car

Inmates help police rescue infant in Florida accidentally locked in car

A group of inmates in New Port Richey, Florida, helped rescue a 1-year-old baby accidentally locked in a car. Shadow Lantry, the mother of the girl, documented the entire rescue in the video.

Deputies received a report of an infant who was accidentally locked inside a sport utility vehicle at the West Pasco Judicial Center on Thursday, according to Pasco County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Kevin Doll. Deputies responded to the scene, where it was 56 degrees outside, and saw the couple’s daughter appeared to be comfortable in a car seat.

After several minutes, the father told deputies he was going to break the driver’s side window.

But a Pasco Sheriff’s Office Inmate supervisor and a crew of low-risk, non-violent offenders knew as trustees were repairing medians in the parking lot outside the judicial center a few feet away and offered to help.

Deputies told the dad to “pop his head in the window” so “strange faces” would not scare the baby. Another person in the viral video by mother Shadow Lantry can be heard commenting on the “hilarious situation,” with deputies watching the crew wearing black-and-white stripes unlock the car.

The crew pried open the front door long enough for one inmate to push the electronic door lock with a coat hanger. It took about two minutes before the group cheered.

The parents thanked the crew, deputies and firefighters for their help, finding their baby crying and sucking on a pacifier inside the car.

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