Rumorz patrons stop man from leaving bar with baby (GRAPHIC VIDEO OF ABDUCTION)

Workman grabs 6 month-old Kasen and tries to run with him. The child suffered bruises in the ordeal, his mother told NIT.

CLEAR LAKE – Clear Lake Police arrested a man who tried walking out of a local bar today, April 20, 2013 with the bar owner’s six month old son.

Police received a call at 3:48 pm from 37-year-old Katie Showalter from Rumorz in Clear Lake. Showalter reported that she and other patrons had thwarted an attempt by a man in the bar to take her son and leave.

Showalter, who is part owner of Rumorz, located at 1210 South Shore Drive was not working today, but pulled into the bar with her baby on her way home to change him and to use the restroom. Showalter left the baby with 48 year old Margaret Bigelow of Clear Lake while she went upstairs to use the restroom. Suddenly, a man who was a patron in the bar walked up to the counter, reached over the shoulder of Bigelow and pulled the child out of her arms and knocking her over backwards in the process. As the man attempted to leave patrons in the bar blocked his way and tried to get the child from him. Showalter, having heard the commotion from the restroom rushed downstairs and pleaded with the man to give her baby back to her. He kept insisting that it was his baby but after some time he did hand over the child to Showalter and left the establishment.

Showalter immediately called the police, who found the man walking a couple of blocks south of the bar. He was identified as 33 year old Jonathan Lindsey Workman who gave a home address of 2120 North Towne Lane in Cedar Rapids.

(UPDATE: Jonathan Lindsey Workman is now out on bond from jail.)

Workman was arrested and taken to the Cerro Gordo County Jail where he is being held on a charge of; ‘Child Stealing’ a class C felony, two charges of ‘Assault’ both class C felonies, ‘Child Endangerment’ an aggravated misdemeanor and ‘Public Intoxication’ a simple misdemeanor.