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Couple used Amazon driver disguise in kidnapping: Cops

Left/ Surveillance footage allegedly showing Marlly Jarina Ardila-Urrego and Chun Ho Vincent Lai, who is allegedly in disguise as an Amazon delivery driver. Right/ Lai allegedly carrying a red bag containing the kidnapped child (KOMO screenshots)

Left: Surveillance footage allegedly shows Marlly Jarina Ardila-Urrego and Chun Ho Vincent Lai, who is allegedly in disguise as an Amazon delivery driver. Right: Lai allegedly carrying a red bag containing the kidnapped child (KOMO screenshots)

A 42-year-old man and his 33-year-old wife were arrested after they drove from their home in Florida all the way to Washington state where they allegedly executed an elaborate plan to ambush a woman and abduct her 7-month-old daughter. Marlly Jarina Ardila-Urrego, who is a cousin of the infant’s mother, and her husband, Chun Ho Vincent Lai, were taken into custody last week and charged with a spate of felonies, including kidnapping, burglary, and assault, court records reviewed by Law&Crime show.

“This case is extraordinarily unusual,” Senior King County Deputy Prosecutor Jennifer Phillips wrote in court documents filed Thursday, the Seattle Times reported. “(They) came to Washington for the explicit reason of taking this baby by force.”

According to a probable cause affidavit obtained by Seattle ABC affiliate KOMO, Lai and Ardila-Urrego at about 9:30 a.m. on Feb. 20 went to the mother’s apartment, which is about 20 miles south of Seattle. Footage from a parking lot security camera appears to show Ardila-Urrego and Lai — who is dressed as an Amazon delivery person and carrying a clipboard and brown cardboard box — park in the lot and stand near their car for about 10 minutes, possibly waiting for the infant’s father to leave the home.

The couple then reportedly went to the apartment of the mother, whom Ardila-Urrego had told to expect a package, and knocked on her door. When the woman opened the door, Lai allegedly attacked, punching the woman in the face several times until she was knocked to the ground.

The couple then entered the apartment where they bound the mother’s hands and feet with zip ties and placed tape over the mouth of her 2-year-old child, authorities said. Ardila-Urrego was reportedly wearing a mask and did not speak in an effort to hide her identity from her cousin.

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