Police arrest aunt in Calif. shackled teen case

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Berkeley : CA : USA | 12 months ago

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Tracy Police Department shows Caren Ramirez. Police were seeking Ramirez …

BERKELEY, Calif. – Police in Tracy, Calif., say they've arrested the aunt of a 17-year-old boy who showed up at a local gym shackled and terrified, claiming he had just fled his captors.

Caren Ramirez is the third suspect arrested in the alleged assault against the teen.

A Tracy police spokesman says 43-year-old Ramirez was arrested Tuesday night after police received a tip she was in the San Francisco suburb of Berkeley. Tracy is about 60 miles west of San Francisco.

Police had been looking for Ramirez after they arrested 30-year-old Kelly Layne Lau and 34-year-old Michael SchumacherMichael Schumacher earlier Tuesday.

Lau and Schumacher are being held on bail of nearly $1.2 million each after being booked on suspicion of torture, kidnapping and child abuse.

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