Overview
- Palm Springs police arrested 26-year-old Nathan E. Velez on a felony charge of false imprisonment of a child under 13 and booked him into Palm Beach County Jail.
- Officers received a call around 4:58 p.m. after a car left the Palm Beach Pre-School parking lot with a six-month-old in a car seat in the back of a white Tesla.
- The mother, identified as Mikeria L. Evans, had placed the baby in the back seat and left the rear door open while retrieving her other child when a daycare employee saw the vehicle depart.
- After Evans reached Velez by phone roughly 20 minutes later, he returned to the preschool, and paramedics evaluated the infant and found the child in good health.
- According to the probable cause affidavit, Velez acknowledged seeing the car seat, called it a mistake not to check for a child, and the case now awaits further legal proceedings.