Nine-month-old is reunited with her mother after Amber Alert
Published: April 2, 2006
After a statewide Amber Alert was issued late Friday evening by the North Carolina Center for Missing Persons, nine-month-old Kara Ashton Hill was back in her mother’s arms around 3:30 Saturday morning.
“The baby is fine and well,” said Sgt. Forrest Pruitt of the Craven County Sheriff’s Department.
After not knowing where Kara was for more than 13 hours, her mother, Jennifer Sharpless, 7010 River Road, finally got a call from Uri, 23, early Saturday morning on her cell phone. Sharpless called the sheriff’s department from another phone while she was still talking with Uri and notified deputies that he was on N.C. 43 at the time. Police arrested him while still on the phone with Sharpless shortly thereafter while on his way back to the mother’s house. When arrested, Rowenko was driving down Streets Ferry Road near West Craven High School.
Uri , who was the mother’s boyfriend, was babysitting Kara while she was at work and was supposed to pick her up at around 2:15 p.m.
“But he never showed up,” Pruitt said.
During a phone call between the mother and Uri Friday afternoon, Uri indicated he was only five minutes from picking her up. Instead, however, Uri drove to Greenville.
After being arrested 13 hours later for felonious restraint, Uri was vague in answering deputies as to why he drove to Greenville with the baby or why he didn’t answer his cell phone, Pruitt said.
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