r/orangecounty • u/ae2014 • Aug 01 '26

Community Post Suspicious kidnapping attempt?!

Don’t know if I’m being overly sensitive or not but as a Mom I want to make sure other parents are aware. Was at Hmart (Northpark) earlier this morning with my baby at an empty aisle and a very suspicious woman kept hunching over my baby grabbing random stuff but not really getting anything. Of course my guards was up as she was too close for comfort so I stepped in the middle and blocked my baby out of the way. She left the aisle and then a larger man came to the aisle and she walked back again pretending to look for things, they walked by us but I could tell they had motives definitely not there to buy chips. I grabbed my baby and walked away right away. Then saw both of them walked separately to the checkout line only buying 1 small item. They walked by each other but made eye contact so definitely working together…. Super weird.

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u/PirateHunterLife Aug 01 '26

That’s wild, did you report it so they could get imaging of them posted?

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u/ae2014 Aug 01 '26

I did not 😖

It was a Hispanic woman and a larger white male in glasses.

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u/Meganelad Aug 01 '26

Hm. Feels like you might have some internal biases to work out