Cherokee SWAT Team Helps Rescue Cobb Kidnapping Victims

PICKENS COUNTY, GA — The Cherokee Sheriff's Office's multi-jurisdictional SWAT Team played a role in rescuing a mother and her child from a kidnapping incident originating in Cobb County.

Officers with Cobb County Police Department's Precinct One were dispatched to an interrupted 911 call around 11:23 p.m. Sunday, July 22 at a home off Shiloh Road near Frey Road in Kennesaw. They arrived to find a door to the home had been forced open and a broken phone used by the caller to dial 911, said Cobb police spokesperson Sgt. Wayne Delk.

Those officers found other signs of a possible struggle and kidnapping, so they called in the agency's Crimes Against Persons detectives to investigate. Through those efforts, they were able to identify a suspect, 34-year-old Daniel Robert Green of Jasper.

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The Pickens Sheriff's Office and Cherokee Multi-Agency SWAT team mobilized and tracked down the suspect in southern Pickens County, the Pickens sheriff's office said Monday morning on its Facebook page. An arrest warrant was executed and Green was taken into custody without incident, the agency added.

Cobb police added the victims, a 31-year-old woman and her five-year-old daughter, were rescued from Green's home in Jasper. They were both unharmed, Sgt. Delk added. Green is charged with two counts of kidnapping and one count each of burglary and cruelty to children. He remains held at the Cobb County Adult Detention Center without bond.

The Cherokee Sheriff's Office on Monday shared on its Facebook page an image of one of its SWAT Team members carrying the young child out of the home to be reunited with her mother.

"Our job is difficult, especially when dealing with children," CSO posted in a message attributed to Sheriff Frank Reynolds. "This child is being reunited with their mother by one of our SWAT Team members. Thanks for all you do!"

Image via Cherokee Sheriff's Office