Criminal charges have been filed against a Compton man who allegedly carjacked a vehicle with a 9-week-old baby and the child’s 93-year-old great-grandmother inside, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday.
Maaliki Grant, 22, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to two felony counts of kidnapping for carjacking and one felony count of resisting arrest with serious bodily injury.
The kidnapping charges include allegations that one of the victims was over 65 and that the other was under 14.
Grant allegedly took a car that was parked Saturday in front of a fabric store on Ninth Street and Maple Avenue with the baby boy and his great-grandmother seated inside.
He returned to the area two hours later, and police laid out a spike strip that seriously injured an officer when Grant drove over it, prosecutors said. Grant was subsequently arrested without further incident.
Paramedics checked out the woman and the child, who both appeared to be in good condition before being reunited with family, police said.
Grant, who could face a potential life sentence with the possibility of parole if convicted as charged, remains jailed in lieu of $2 million bail.