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Arrest Made In Taken-Baby Case

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By CHRIS ECHEGARAY

Published: October 25, 2007

News Channel 8 Video Report

DUNEDIN - An 18-year-old man accused of beating his girlfriend and taking off with her 9-month-old baby was arrested on Wednesday, the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office reported.

Nicholas Curry

Deputies had been looking for Nicholas Curry, of 460 N. Hibiscus Drive, since Monday. They say he hit his girlfriend, threatened to kill himself and drove away with the baby. The boy was returned to the mother after a meeting was arranged.

Curry was spotted and approached by deputies at the corner of Douglas Avenue and Jackson Street. He gave them a false name and fled.

Curry was arrested after a foot chase that ended at 4:45 p.m. in the crawlspace of a home under construction at 446 Palmetto Street in Dunedin. Curry resisted, and police hit him with a stun gun and handcuffed him in the crawlspace, authorities said.

Two deputies suffered minor injuries.

Curry was charged with false imprisonment, felony battery, grand theft auto, resisting arrest with violence, obstruction by disguise for providing false name, and possession of marijuana.

Police recovered the stolen vehicle, which belongs to the victim's mother.

The incident started Monday when Curry was driving home from Jackson Playground in Dunedin with his girlfriend and her baby. He started to hit his girlfriend, threatened to kill himself and pulled out a knife and cut himself across the chest, deputies said.

Once they got to Curry's home, the girlfriend tried to grab the baby boy and leave, but Curry chased her off before she could get the baby out of the car, deputies said.

Curry's father went looking for him and talked him into meeting him at a Dunedin High School parking lot to hand over the baby.

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