Parents of missing baby arrested

Investigators in the case of 7-month-old Emmanuel Haro search his home

- BY NATHAN SOLIS

NEIGHBORS gather outside home of Jake and Rebecca Haro, who were arrested.

The parents of missing baby Emmanuel Haro were arrested Friday on suspicion of murder, more than a week after his mother claimed the 7-month-old boy was abducted, San Bernardino County Sheriff's officials said.

They were arrested at their Cabazon home, and officials said they were still searching for the baby.

By 10 a.m., a crowd was gathering near the family's home on Ramona Street where the Haro parents were arrested hours earlier. A small memorial set up for Emmanuel near the home had drawn about 50 people, some of whom came from out of state out of fascination with the case.

Among them was Jimmy Williams, a YouTube videographer from Chesapeake, Va., who arrived in the county three days ago to follow the case.

"It's not just the community that wants answers," Williams said. "It's the whole country that wants answers for this beautiful little baby."

Another person outside the home, Kimberly Govea, was wearing a black T-shirt that read, "Where's the baby?"

She attended a vigil Thursday evening outside the Haro home.

"This is our passion to help people find lost kids or whatever, put pressure on the families to ... give up where the baby's at," she said.

Emmanuel was reported missing Aug. 14 under suspicious circumstances after his mother said she was attacked and knocked unconscious outside a Big 5 store in Yucaipa, according to a San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department news release.

At the home on Friday morning, San Bernardino County Sheriff's investigators in plain clothes searched the property, passing by a colorful kid's bicycle leaning against a fence and a baby swing on the porch.