SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Sioux Falls Police Department spokesperson Sam Clemens says a fugitive task force, which integrates the Sioux Falls Police Department and Minnehaha County Sheriff’s Office into one team, played an integral role in locating two Sioux Falls women: 20-year-old Taylor Marie Edwards, whose alleged involvement in a kidnapping was announced Thursday, and 38-year-old Betty Jewel Cross.

Cross and Edwards are accused of kidnapping a seven-month-old child. The City of Sioux Falls announced in a Wednesday afternoon news release that the state’s Department of Social Services would work to bring the baby back to South Dakota, saying the alleged victim “appeared unharmed.”

Mobile market ‘in danger’ after federal grant freeze

Clemens says the fugitive task force, which was trying to find Cross, had information pointing them to Michigan.”They’re very good at what they do,” Clemens said Thursday. “This case, they learned that she had left the state. They passed that information on to the detective, and then he was the one that got in touch with the Detroit Police Department.”Court papers say Child Protection Services temporarily placed the alleged victim with Cross back in August. However, court documents also say CPS informed Cross in late February that the child would be placed with another family.Per Clemens, the Detroit Police Department found and arrested Cross and Edwards together in that city Wednesday, with Edwards allegedly having helped take the baby. Clemens explains that with kidnappings, the victim and suspect nearly always share a connection. “This one involving a child, we see that time to time, usually it starts off under the guise of some type of child custody dispute, could be an ex-spouse or a boyfriend/girlfriend, different situations,” he said. “This one had a little different nuance to it.”