UPDATED: Alleged Monrovia Kidnapper Arrested

Sheriff's detectives have arrested a 32-year-old man and booked him on charges of kidnapping for his alleged involvement in the abduction of a child from a yard in unincorporated Monrovia last week.

Due to an ongoing investigation, Los Angeles County Sheriff's officials were not releasing the name of the man as of Monday afternoon, Capt. Mike Parker said.

The man was arrested at a residence in the 2500 block of Peck Road and a search warrant was executed at 3:30 a.m. Monday at another residence in Los Angeles County, Parker said.

Parker said the composite sketch of the suspect was instrumental to the investigation, as residents reported seeing a man matching the description who frequents the Peck Road home after deputies went door-to-door with the sketch.

"A couple of astute deputies were shilling the composite around the neighborhood and found a couple people who might have seen him," Lt. Tom McNeal said.

Citing the ongoing investigation, authorities declined to provide details of the arrest or evidence recovered as a result of the search warrant. The fact that he matched the composite was key, Parker said.

"His resemblance to the composite and the physical description is why we made contact with him and led to his arrest," Parker said.

Detectives on Saturday after a on Friday and carried off for about a block by the assailant. The boy was able to free himself by biting his kidnapper, authorities said.

The block where the suspect was apprehended is infamous for being the area where was gunned down by gang members during a rash of gang violence in the city in late 2007 and early 2008.

There are two residential complexes on the 2500 block of South Peck--the Riviera apartments, where Salas was visiting her father at the time of the shooting, and the Walnut Grove mobile home park. Sheriff's officials would not specify where the suspect was arrested.

A woman who declined to give her name but identified herself as the manager of the Riviera said Monday that no one had been arrested at the apartments on Sunday.

Sheriff's detectives who were continuing their investigation along the 2500 block of Graydon Monday afternoon declined to elaborate about the arrest.