Multi-agency pursuit ends with successful PIT maneuver, infant’s safe recovery, and suspect’s arrest.

The Florida Highway Patrol (FHP), working with multiple law enforcement agencies, successfully rescued a two-month-old infant from an armed kidnapping suspect following a dangerous high-speed pursuit on August 3, 2025. The tense chase, which spanned three counties, concluded with a decisive PIT maneuver and the safe return of the child to their family.

The incident began around 4:00 p.m. when FHP was alerted to a kidnapping suspect, Maurtez Rashaad Edwards, wanted out of Georgia for the abduction of his own child.

FHP Trooper Norris, along with deputies from the Liberty County Sheriff’s Office (LCSO), quickly located Edwards’s vehicle heading into Liberty County. When law enforcement at

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