Father Arrested In Child Abduction Case, Central Marin Police Say

MARIN COUNTY, CA – Central Marin Police Authority officers arrested a Placer County man Tuesday on suspicion of abducting his daughter from his girlfriend in Oregon and fleeing in a stolen vehicle.

Fionn O'Lochlainn, 46, of Penryn, allegedly assaulted his 37-year-old girlfriend in Tigard, Oregon, forcibly took their 2.5-year-old daughter and fled in his girlfriend's Toyota Prius, police spokeswoman Margo
Rohrbacher said.

Fairfax police broadcast a "be on the lookout" bulletin at 5:40 p.m. Tuesday for the stolen car with a possible kidnapped child in the vehicle, Rohrbacher said.

The Toyota was last seen in the area of the Good Earth Natural Foods store on Center Boulevard in Fairfax, and Central Marin Police Authority officers located the Toyota a short time later traveling on eastbound Sir Francis Drake Boulevard through San Anselmo, Rohrbacher said.

Police stopped the Toyota at Elm Avenue in Kentfield and O'Lochlainn surrendered peacefully at 10:30 p.m.

The girl was found unharmed in the back seat and was cared for overnight by Marin County Child and Family
Services, Rohrbacher said.

O'Lochlainn was booked into Marin County Jail on suspicion of child stealing, willful cruelty to a child, kidnapping by force or fraud and vehicle theft. He is being held under $500,000 bail.

By Bay City News