Child Returned, Man In Custody: Police

LAWRENCEVILLE, GA — The Gwinnett County Police have arrested the man who, they say, took illegal custody of a seven-year-old child after he turned himself in Wednesday. The child, Quamaine Finch, is in good health and the Division of Family and Children's Services was contacted.

Police say Ricardo Medy, 42, surrendered to a Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Department deputy at the Gwinnett County Recorder’s Court Annex Building and is charged with interference of custody. He was eventually transported to the Gwinnett County Jail.

Medy took his girlfriend's child illegally, police said.

Quamaine Finch's mother was taken into custody in Fulton County last week for unknown charges. The child was initially left in the care of her boyfriend, Medy, of Lawrenceville. Since that time, the Division of Family and Children's Services, or DFCS, was awarded custody of Quamaine.
On Nov. 27 at around 7:30 p.m., officers assigned to the East Precinct, along with a member of

DFCS, visited Medy's home in the 1200 block of Park Hollow Lane in unincorporated Lawrenceville. Medy refused to answer the door for the officers. During a phone conversation, he said that the child was not at the home. He told the officers that Quamaine was with his biological father at an unknown location.

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The case was ultimately assigned to a detective in the Special Victims Unit. That detective secured an arrest warrant for Medy.

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Photos courtesy of Gwinnett County Police Department