Police have identified the suspect as Troy Morley. Police say he sneaked into a home in Sandy, Utah, a quiet Salt Lake City suburb and was carrying the girl away when her father intervened. The girl's father went to the door and saw the man carrying his daughter in the front lawn. He ran outside and confronted the man, wrestling away his daughter. Police captured the 46-year-old man outside that second home thanks to a police dog that bit the suspect in the upper shoulder, Carriger said.
A heroic Utah step-father has rescued his five-year-old step-daughter from the clutches of a brazen kidnapper who had snatched her from her own bed in the middle of the night.
The man awoke to find Troy Morley, 46, carrying his daughter across his front lawn at 4.30 this morning in quiet Sandy, Utah, police say.
'What are you doing, that’s my daughter, you’re not taking her!' the father screamed.
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Home safe and sound: The five-year-old victim of an attempted kidnapping rests safely with her mother after a home intruder snatched her out of her bed Friday morning
Troy Morley, 46, is seen here being led in the jail after he was released from the hospital Friday afternoon. He was bitten on the shoulder by a police dog before his arrest
Police say Morley had been wandering through the neighborhood trying to find open doors and windows to break into a home. He entered the house through an unlocked side door
Morley, who is 5-foot-11 and 250lbs, put the girl down without struggle. He fled and was eventually caught in another house after a police canine bit him on the shoulder.
On Friday night, the 911 call made by the girl's mother was released by KSL.com.
In the footage, the terrified woman can be heard telling the dispatcher: 'There was a man in my home and he took my five-year-old daughter.
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