Left: A still image from surveillance footage showing an alleged kidnapping in a Walmart in Tulsa, Okla. (Tulsa Police Department). Right: Marshall Dixon (Tulsa Police Department).
An Oklahoma man was arrested after he took someone else's child out of their shopping cart at a Walmart, Sooner State police say.
Marshall Dixon, 50, stands accused of one count of kidnapping, according to a press release issued by the Tulsa Police Department.
The incident occurred on Sept. 8 at the Walmart Supercenter on Memorial Drive in the Burning Tree neighborhood of Tulsa, police said.
A few minutes past 5 p.m. that Tuesday evening, officers responded to a report about a kidnapping at the big-box retailer.
The mother of the child in question said she was shopping in the store when a man came up to her, briefly talked to her about her two children, and then whisked her 1-year-old out of her shopping cart.
"The man put the child in his own shopping cart and started walking away," the police department press release reads.
The woman told police she quickly confronted the man and took her child back. The mother then locked herself and her children in the store's bathroom to call for help, police said.
In still images culled from surveillance footage inside the store, the incident appears to have occurred on an aisle where nonfood household items are sold. In the image provided by police, a man is seen with his arms around a child dangling over a shopping cart.
Walmart employees, alerted to the issue, kicked the defendant out of the store and called 911, according to law enforcement.
Responding officers found "a man matching the suspect's description" sitting outside the store at a nearby bus stop, police said.
Then, when asked about the alleged abduction, the man said, "Yeah, I did that," according to the police department.
Dixon was subsequently arrested and booked in the Tulsa County Jail.
Tulsa County Sheriff's Office records, however, do not currently show anyone with the defendant's name in custody.
The case against the defendant has yet to be docketed, court records show.
Law&Crime has reached out to the Tulsa Police Department and filed an open records request for additional details on this story, but no response was immediately forthcoming at the time of publication.
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