Federal investigators are helping in the search for a missing 5-day-old boy who disappeared from his crib at a southern Wisconsin home.
The baby's mother, Brianna Marshall, 18, called police about 4:30 a.m. Thursday, when she noticed her son, Kayden Powell, was missing from a bassinette in a room at the Town of Beloit home where she and the newborn's father were sleeping, authorities said.
About 40 officers from federal, state and local law enforcement agencies were working on the case, police said, but no suspects have been named and no arrests have been made.
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Town of Beloit Police Chief Steven Kopp said Marshall was staying at the East Homeland Court home with her son and the baby's 23-year-old father, Bruce Powell.
Several people - including the parents, a relative and a friend - who were staying at the house when the baby went missing, Kopp said.
All of the witnesses have been cooperative, police said.
Authorities initially launched a search for a woman who left the house about 1:30 a.m. Thursday, the last time people in the house saw the baby boy.
Police reached the woman, Kristen Smith - who was heading back to her home in Colorado - on her cell phone and she pulled into a gas station in Iowa, where she flagged down a passing cop car.
Police searched her car, but found no evidence to suggest she had taken the newborn. Smith was taken into custody on an unrelated outstanding warrant from Texas, but she was no longer considered a person of interest in the missing baby case.
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Kopp said an Amber Alert was not issued because the disappearance did not meet certain criteria, and the incident is not believed to be a custody dispute.
Police continued to search for clues in the home, which is about 50 miles south of Madison, on Thursday night.
With News Wire Services
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