Carlesha Freeland-Gaither was found alive in Jessup, Maryland Wednesday night after she was abducted in Philly Sunday. Delvin Barnes was arrested in connection to the abduction. NBC10's Nefertiti Jaquez has the details. (Published Thursday, Nov. 6, 2014) 
 
 Less than 72 hours after being violently snatched off a Philadelphia street as she walked home from visiting her godson, Carlesha Freeland-Gaither has been rescued from the "vicious predator" police say kidnapped her. 
 
 Now as she recovers from the attack that was caught on video and seen nationally, focus moves to her alleged abductor, who authorities have linked to a similar crime against a teenage girl. 
 
 "I’m taking my baby home. Thank you," Keisha Gaither, the woman's overjoyed mother, told the public at a news conference Wednesday night. Her family erupted into applause as the woman spoke. 
 
 Carlesha's Mom Thanks Detective for Keeping His Promise Watch as the mother of Carlesha Freeland Gaither thanks the detective who personally promised her officials would find her abducted daughter. MORE DETAILS HERE. (Published Thursday, Nov. 6, 2014) 
 
 New Surveillance Video Released in Woman's Abduction 
 
 The 22-year-old was rescued from the car of her alleged kidnapper, 37-year-old Delvin Barnes, in a Jessup, Maryland, parking lot Wednesday afternoon, officials said. She suffered some injuries and was taken to a nearby hospital in Columbia, Maryland, for treatment, police said. She was listed in good condition and is expected to recover. 
 
 “It’s very special for all of us. You hope, you hope, you hope, but you don't really know until you're actually able to get her, and make sure she's OK. So it's very important that this has a happy ending," Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey said. 
 
 Carlesha Freeland-Gaither, 22, was rescued by federal agents on Nov. 5 following her abduction in Philadelphia three days prior. Her alleged kidnapper, Delvin Barnes, is pictured right in an undated mugshot. 
 
 Photo credit: NBC10 
 
 Agents moved in quickly after receiving a tip from the ATF Office in Richmond, Virginia, which was investigating Barnes. They believed the man may have been the suspect after seeing surveillance photos in news reports, Philadelphia detectives said. 
 
 Authorities began tracking his gray Ford Taurus through a GPS device placed inside the vehicle by the car dealership where it was purchased, detectives said. The GPS was installed because Barnes had poor credit, officials said. 
 
 Agents honed in on his location, in a shopping center parking lot, and moved in to strike. 
 
 "He was more surprised than anything," ATF agent Tim Jones said of the arrest. 
 
 Barnes and the victim were in the backseat of the car when agents arrived, but he quickly jumped into the driver's seat to try and flee, Jones said. Agents blocked his way and took him into custody. 
 
 Freeland-Gaither screamed hysterically for help as the arrest was taking place, telling the agents she was the woman who had been abducted in Philadelphia, Jones said. 
 
 "Once she had time to process what had happened you could tell she was emotionally distraught," he said. 
 
 Barnes, who has ties to Philadelphia, apparently attacked Freeland-Gaither at random, detectives said. He is being held on an warrant for attempted murder of a 16-year-old girl last month in Charles City County, Virginia. 
 
 Alleged abduction suspect Delvin Barnes' gray Ford Taurus is loaded onto a flatbed to be taken into evidence. 
 
 Photo credit: NBC10 
 
 "He’s a thug and this is what he does apparently," Ramsey said of the alleged abductor. “He’s a vicious predator. He’s off the streets." 
 
 Barnes will be charged federally in the alleged kidnapping and assault, said Edward Hanko, special agent-in-charge of the FBI's Philadelphia division. Officials said many times that the investigation remained fluid and had a long way to go. 
 
 A Three Day Ordeal 
 
 Freeland-Gaither's rescue puts an end to three intense days of searching by Philadelphia Police, the FBI and her family. 
 
 The nursing aide was grabbed as she walked along Greene Street near W. Coulter Street in the city's Germantown section at 9:40 p.m. Sunday. She was returning home from a visit to see her godson. 
 
 The woman was forced down the street and into a car. She struggled to get away, fighting her attacker and breaking out the car's rear passenger window. But she couldn't escape -- her glasses and smartphone left on the sidewalk. 
 
 The entire ordeal was caught on surveillance video and widely shared. 
 
 DevelopingNew Clues in Woman's Violent Abduction 
 
 An intense manhunt ensued with the search quickly expanding from Northwest Philadelphia to Aberdeen, Maryland, where Freeland-Gaither's ATM card was used by a man early Monday morning. 
 
 Her family made tearful pleas for the woman's safe return and continued posting missing posters through Wednesday, never giving up hope. 
 
 Detectives got a break in the case from a woman living in Havre De Grace, Maryland. In her driveway, the woman found a bag of trash that included a receipt from an ACME supermarket in Northeast Philadelphia, a bag of Herr's potato chips and shattered glass. 
 
 The woman, who asked to remain anonymous, told NBC10 that she initially thought it was just trash, but later called authorities after talking to a friend about the case. 
 
 Abducted Woman's Emotional Parents Beg for Her Release 
 
 Investigators were able to use the receipt to hone in on the supermarket and gather clear surveillance video of Barnes from the day of the attack, detectives said. In the video, he could be seen buying the same chips that the woman found, police sources said. 
 
 RAW: New Surveillance of POI in Abduction Case Authorities released new surveillance video Wednesday showing a person of interest in the abduction of 22-year-old Carlesha Freeland-Gaither, who was snatched from a Germantown street Sunday night. (Published Thursday, Nov. 6, 2014) 
 
 Officials thanked the public for helping to move along the investigation. 
 
 "We worked tirelessly, around the clock, investigated every lead that we had, and we really appreciate the public coming forward giving us a hand, giving us all the information that we were able to sit there and work on," Philadelphia Police Northwest Detective Division Capt. James Smith said. 
 
 "Problems With Women" 
 
 Barnes has a long history with the law. 
 
 Philadelphia Police arrested the man in November 2005 on a slew of charges including rape, burglary, aggravated assault, making terroristic threats and reckless endangerment, according to court documents. 
 
 Police reports obtained by NBC10 stated Barnes beat, sexually assaulted and held his estranged wife captive -- defying a protection from abuse order. The woman is also the mother of his child, family said. 
 
 VideoAbduction Suspect Once Held Ex-Wife Captive 
 
 He jumped from the woman's closet, grabbed her by the face and dug his nails into her skin, according to the reports. He held her in the home overnight and allegedly forced her to have sex with him, the police report states. 
 
 The next morning, the woman begged Barnes to let her use the phone and call her parents. As she spoke to her mom, she was able to indicate she was in trouble and told her mother to call 911, according to investigators. When the parents arrived, Barnes began to beat them before they were able to escape and call police, according to the reports. 
 
 Barnes was eventually arrested, charged and found guilty of aggravated assault, criminal trespassing, false imprisonment and related charges, the documents show. 
 
 Delvin Barnes, 37, is accused of abducting a Philadelphia woman and holding her captive for three days. The kidnapping prompted a multi-state search resulting in his arrest on Nov. 5. 
 
 Photo credit: Philadelphia Police 
 
 Lamar Barnes, the man's uncle, told NBC10 Wednesday night that his nephew recently was released from prison. He said the man is the son of a minister and that he's had trouble with women in the past. 
 
 “It’s just hard for me to accept the viciousness of it, not necessarily surprised. You know some men grow up having problems with women so they take it out on women. Apparently he’s one of them," Lamar Barnes said. 
 
 The uncle said he's glad to hear that Freeland-Gaither is safe and that Delvin's parents are "devastated" by the allegations. 
 
 "If he’s somebody I didn’t know, I would say whatever they do to him is fine. Well, he’s my nephew, same thing. What am I gonna do," he said. 
 
 Two weeks ago, officials in Virginia dropped charges against Barnes. According to court records, he was arrested in July for making a bomb threat, which is a felony. That charge was amended to trespassing, a misdemeanor, and the case finally dropped on Oct. 24, the records show. 
 
 Four days later, sheriffs in Charles City County, Virginia, linked Barnes to the abduction, rape and torture of a 16-year-old girl. 
 
 Authorities said the girl went missing on Oct. 1 and showed up two days later at a business. She was naked, bloody and covered in burns smelling of bleach and gasoline, officials said. 
 
 Abduction Suspect Also Accused of Raping Teen 
 
 DNA tests came back as a match to Barnes on Oct. 28, officials said. A warrant was issued and he was charged with attempted capital murder, abduction, forcible rape, malicious wounding, malicious injury with acid, explosives or fire and intimate object penetration, authorities said. 
 
 Coming Home 
 
 A Philadelphia Police caravan left the city late Wednesday carrying about 15 members of Freeland-Gaither's family to the hospital for a reunion with the victim. 
 
 The family made their way back to Philadelphia early Thursday morning in an effort to help the young woman move past the assault and begin the healing process right away, at home. 
 
 WATCH: Carlesha and Family Leave Hospital Watch as Carlesha Freeland-Gaither and her family leave the hospital in Maryland hours after she was found safe. (Published Thursday, Nov. 6, 2014) 
 
 "Thank you so much for having us in your prayers, thank you for keeping me up. Thank you for being there for us," the woman's mother, Keisha Gaither said. 
 
 Carlesha's Mom Thanks Detective for Keeping His Promise Watch as the mother of Carlesha Freeland Gaither thanks the detective who personally promised her officials would find her abducted daughter. MORE DETAILS HERE. (Published Thursday, Nov. 6, 2014) 
 
 NBC10 reporters Rosemary Connors, Nefertiti Jaquez, Denise Nakano, George Spencer, Randy Gyllenhall, Tim Furlong and Deanna Durante and investigative producer Jim O'Donnell contributed to this report. 
 
 Contact Vince Lattanzio at 610.668.5532, vince.lattanzio@nbcuni.com or follow @VinceLattanzio on Twitter. ||||| Carlesha Freeland-Gaither is escorted from Howard County General Hospital in Columbia, Md. early Thursday morning by Philadelphia Detectives James Sloan (left) and John Geliebter (partially obscured). STEVEN M. FALK / Staff Photographer 
 
 The investigators watching the sedan with the broken windows in the parking lot in Jessup, Md., on Wednesday evening saw two figures in the backseat: a man and a woman they hoped was a 22-year-old from Philadelphia who had been violently abducted three days earlier. Then the man climbed into the front seat and tried to pull away. The ATF agents closed in with guns drawn. The man surrendered without a fight. The terrified woman in the backseat gave her name: Carlesha. And with that, the three-day ordeal that stretched across state lines and galvanized police and the public came to an end, with Carlesha Freeland-Gaither injured but safe, and a wanted man with a history of violence in custody. 
 
 Delvin Barnes, 37, will face federal charges, officials said. 
 
 "He's a vicious predator," Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey said at an evening news conference. "Hopefully, he'll be off the streets and in jail for the rest of his life, because that's what he deserves." 
 
 At the commissioner's side, a smiling Keisha Gaither, Freeland-Gaither's mother, thanked law enforcement officials and the public for her daughter's safe return. 
 
 "I'm taking my baby home," she said. 
 
 Freeland-Gaither, a nurse's assistant who moved to Philadelphia from Maryland two years ago, was grabbed by a man while walking along the 100 block of West Coulter Street on Sunday night. She had been on the way home from her godson's birthday party. The abduction was caught on video, showing a man stalking the woman, grabbing her, and dragging her into a waiting Ford Taurus. She was struggling and screaming during the few seconds it took for her abductor to drag her to his car. 
 
 The video, which police released Monday and which was widely broadcast, shows the woman kicking out two of the car's windows. 
 
 Barnes' arrest was the result of determined police work, a family's dedication to finding a daughter, and sheer luck, including a credit report so bad it led a car salesman to put a GPS device in Barnes' Ford in case it had to be repossessed. 
 
 That device became critical Wednesday afternoon when law enforcement officials near Richmond, Va., recognized Barnes from news reports as the man they were looking for in an unrelated case, in which Barnes allegedly assaulted and poured bleach on a young girl. On Tuesday, the FBI put out a wanted poster with Barnes' photo for that attack. 
 
 After conferring with law enforcement officials in Philadelphia and agreeing they were looking for the same man, investigators used the GPS device to track Barnes to a parking lot in Jessup. 
 
 Tim Jones, a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives special supervisory agent, told reporters in Maryland on Wednesday night that Freeland-Gaither was hysterical when she was found. 
 
 "She was very emotionally distraught. We took her to the hospital," he said. 
 
 After an ATF agent calmed her down, Freeland-Gaither was able to say her name, bringing relief to a family that had been praying for her return. 
 
 On Wednesday night, family members, friends, and well-wishers began gathering around 7:20 on Coulter for what was to be a candlelight vigil. Instead, it became a celebration. 
 
 Karen Reddy and sister Patricia Reddy-Gaither had returned early Wednesday from a trip to Maryland to put up fliers in the search for Carlesha. 
 
 "We couldn't sit still," said Reddy, 55, a cousin. 
 
 The sisters were joined by other relatives in two cars on the trip. They put fliers at a PNC bank where Freeland-Gaither's ATM card was used, at a nearby Wal-Mart, and at gas stations. 
 
 Reddy-Gaither, 49, who said she was Carlesha's aunt, said she was overwhelmed with joy when she heard the news. 
 
 "First thing I'm going to do is hug her," she said. 
 
 After the news conference announcing the happy ending, Philadelphia detectives drove Keisha Gaither to Howard County Hospital to reunite with her daughter. 
 
 The two had already talked on the phone. "She told me she loved and she missed me, and to come get her," Gaither said, adding, "I'm going to get my daughter." 
 
 Detectives also hoped to be able to interview Freeland-Gaither about her ordeal. 
 
 As late as Wednesday afternoon, detectives believed the abduction may have had some connection to people from Freeland-Gaither's childhood in Maryland, but police later said they believed Barnes, who was charged in 2005 with the violent rape of an estranged wife in Philadelphia and who has a long criminal record, targeted her at random. 
 
 In the 2005 attack, Barnes was accused of breaking into the victim's Northeast home and raping her, and later assaulting her father. He was acquitted of rape but convicted of aggravated assault, and was sentenced to four to eight years in prison. 
 
 In Freeland-Gaither's abduction, police said Wednesday night they believed Barnes did not know the woman he is charged with kidnapping. 
 
 Northwest Detectives Capt. James Smith said, "Right now, we're just taking it on as a stranger investigation." 
 
 Ramsey on Wednesday night praised his detectives' work over the last three days and thanked the media for spreading awareness and the public for sending in tips. 
 
 At the news conference, Keisha Gaither hugged the lead investigators on the case, Detective Jim Sloan, who she said had sat at her kitchen table for hours after her daughter's abduction and promised he would bring her home. 
 
 "And he brought my baby home," she said through tears. 
 
 Sloan, who worked the case with Detectives John Geliebter, Brian Boos, and Ed Davis, credited the speedy response of an eyewitness on the street, who called 911 twice at the time of the abduction, then retrieved Freeland-Gaither's cellphone and glasses from the street where they had fallen. Though the cellphone was locked, Freeland-Gaither's boyfriend called, and police were able to quickly notify her family members and tell them to mobilize with a social-media campaign. 
 
 As hours stretched into days, investigators amassed videos documenting Barnes' movements in Maryland after the abduction - showing him using Freeland-Gaither's ATM card at a Maryland bank and buying chips at a gas station - released them online, and asked for the public's help. 
 
 Police also obtained more video of the abduction, showing more clearly the brief but violent interaction between the woman and her kidnapper. 
 
 Though with each passing hour the chance that Freeland-Gaither could be brought back unharmed dimmed, Sloan said investigators never lost hope. 
 
 Then, on Wednesday, they got a break. 
 
 A woman in Havre de Grace, Md., found a receipt from an Acme Market in Rhawnhurst, a broken key chain, smashed glass, a zip tie, and an empty bag of Herr's potato chips. The receipt led to a video showing Barnes buying chips at the Acme. Detectives thought, Sloan said, that they were closing in. 
 
 Soon, Sloan said, his phone rang. A police officer assigned to the ATF in Philadelphia told him another law enforcement agent in Virginia had recognized their suspect as the man they were searching for in a case involving a young girl. 
 
 After police in New Kent County, Va., made the connection, FBI investigators agreed. "It went down real quick," Sloan said. Within hours, an ATF agent in Jessup was telling him police had Carlesha. 
 
 That's when the "good moment" came, Sloan said. When he called Keisha Gaither's house, Carlesha's sister picked up. She sounded forlorn, Sloan said. 
 
 "Don't sound so gloomy," Sloan said. "Why don't you just start cheering? We found your sister, and she's safe. Put your mom on." 
 
 When Keisha Gaither took the phone, Sloan said, all she kept saying was, "Get me to my baby. Get me to my baby." 
 
 awhelan@philly.com 215-854-2961 @aubreyjwhelan 
 
 Inquirer staff writer Robert Moran contributed to this article. ||||| Story highlights Carlesha Freeland-Gaither, 22, is "doing about as well as you can expect" 
 
 Delvin Barnes admitted to the abduction, according to a criminal complaint 
 
 He waives extradition to Virginia, where he faces other charges; no bail set 
 
 Freeland-Gaither was found 3 days later in Maryland; Barnes didn't know her 
 
 An ATM transaction, a grocery store receipt, a GPS device planted by a concerned car dealer and videos -- including one that showed a 22-year-old woman manhandled, knocked to the ground, then forced into a car just blocks from her Philadelphia home. 
 
 All of it, among other tips and pieces of evidence, added up. And because of that, Carlesha Freeland-Gaither is thankfully back in Philadelphia where she belongs. 
 
 The 22-year-old nursing assistant was released early Thursday from Maryland's Howard County General Hospital, having been reunited with her family after a harrowing three days. 
 
 "She's doing about as well as you can expect. Obviously, she's traumatized by the entire event over the past few days, so it's going to take a little time for that to heal. But she's doing well. She's back with her family and she's very, very happy about that," Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey told CNN's "Erin Burnett OutFront." 
 
 "She had injuries, but nothing life threatening, fortunately," he said. 
 
 The man who authorities say abducted her, 37-year-old Delvin Barnes, has a new home himself, at a detention center in Baltimore County, Maryland. According to a criminal complaint, Barnes admitted to the kidnapping. He also reportedly said he didn't know the victim before he took her. 
 
 Appearing at a court hearing later Thursday from jail via video conference, Barnes waived his extradition to Virginia where he faces grave charges in another abduction case. That leaves Virginia authorities five days to pick him up. 
 
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 Maryland Judge Darryl G. Fletcher didn't set bail, due to the severity and number of charges in Virginia. 
 
 It's not clear when Barnes will be arraigned in the Philadelphia case, though it seems unlikely he'll be free when that happens. 
 
 But at least his alleged latest victim, Freeland-Gaither, is. 
 
 Philadelphia police Commissioner Charles Ramsey says that's because of "a lot of police work, a lot of tips from the public. But we were able to track it down." 
 
 Cinquetta Barfield, the victim's cousin, told CNN affiliate KYW on Thursday that Freeland-Gaither is "in good health." 
 
 "God was on our side. Everybody was praying for us and prayer works," she said. 
 
 And the victim's mother, Keisha Gaither, couldn't be happier or more thankful. 
 
 As she said Wednesday night to law enforcement, the media and the public, "Thank you for keeping me up. Thank you for being there for us. I'm taking my baby home!" 
 
 Taken after visiting godson 
 
 On Sunday, Freeland-Gaither went to the house of her mother's godson, her aunt Dayah Freeland said, and took a bus toward home. 
 
 After she was dropped off in Philadelphia's Germantown-Penn Knox area around 9:40 p.m., the suspect's car passed her, turned up the street, then met her at an intersection, Philadelphia police Chief Inspector Dennis Wilson told CNN sister network HLN. 
 
 It was then that her abductor pounced. 
 
 Surveillance video shows Freeland-Gaither being confronted by a man, then forcibly led away by him, tussling on the ground before being forced into a car. 
 
 During the struggle, her glasses and cell phone fell to the road. Freeland-Gaither kept fighting -- even breaking out one of the passenger side windows -- but she couldn't stop the car from speeding away. 
 
 Abductions are hardly unprecedented, but Ramsey said it is rare to see one captured on video. 
 
 "I've been on the job 46 years, (this is the) first time I've ever seen a kidnapping on videotape. (It) really was horrific to watch it unfold." 
 
 Police had asked for the public's help in finding 22-year-old Carlesha Freeland-Gaither. 
 
 Police: Car dealer provided key tip 
 
 This wasn't the only video that police released. 
 
 Another, from just after 6 a.m. Monday, shows a man in a dark hooded jacket using Freeland-Gaither's ATM card at a machine in Aberdeen, Maryland, which is about 75 miles from Philadelphia. 
 
 And on Wednesday, police released an additional video of a man, also wearing dark clothing, making a purchase at a convenience store on Monday. 
 
 Someone who sold a car to Barnes recognized him from one of the videos and alerted authorities. The dealer had placed a GPS device in the vehicle because of worries about Barnes' bad credit, according to Charles City County Sheriff's Office Capt. Jayson Crawley. 
 
 "From that, we were able to trace the car," Ramsey said. "We were able to then contact Charles City (Virginia authorities), ... and things started really falling into place very quickly." 
 
 Such devices are put in cars to alert customers if they're behind on payments and, if they don't pay on time, allowing dealers to shut down the vehicle and track it down, said PassTime USA CEO Stan Schwartz, the head of the company that made the unit. In this case, Barnes knew it was there. 
 
 PassTime has about 1.5 million such units out on the road, but has been only asked by law enforcement 10 to 15 times to track them as part of a criminal investigation, according to Schwartz. He said that the car dealer worked with authorities earlier this week, with the PassTime USA headquarters getting involved Thursday morning. 
 
 In the Virginia case, Barnes is charged with abduction, forcible rape, malicious wounding with a chemical and other charges related to the early October disappearance of a 16-year-old girl, according to Crawley. That girl managed to escape after two days, walking 2 miles naked and burned into a business seeking help. 
 
 Delvin Barnes is also charged with abduction, forcible rape and malicious wounding of a Virginia teenage girl. 
 
 Like the case involving Freeland-Gaither, authorities believe that case was a stranger abduction, meaning the victim didn't know who took her. 
 
 "We used to chill, hang out. He's a good guy," a friend of Barnes told CNN affiliate WTVR about the suspect. 
 
 "I don't believe it ... He is always looking to help somebody, always looking to bend over backwards. He'll give the shirt off his back if he could," Ronald Davis said. 
 
 The travels of Barnes ended Wednesday night in Jessup, Maryland. 
 
 "We surveilled that vehicle in the area," FBI agent Ed Hanko said of the car Barnes is thought to have used in Freeland-Gaither's kidnapping. 
 
 "... When the subject exited the vehicle, that's when Ms. (Freeland-Gaither) was recovered."
– A woman whose violent abduction was captured on surveillance video in Philadelphia has been found alive and well in Maryland, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer. Carlesha Freeland-Gaither, 22, is in good condition, and police say her assailant, identified as 37-year-old Delven Barnes, is in custody. NBC Philadelphia reports that police rescued Freeland-Gaither from a vehicle on the side of a road in Jessup, Md., yesterday after Barnes stepped out of it. Authorities had identified it as the vehicle used in the abduction, tracked it to Maryland, and had it under surveillance. Philadelphia's police chief called Barnes a "vicious predator" and said he hoped he'd spend the rest of his life in jail. Authorities say Freeland-Gaither, a nursing assistant, did not know her assailant, with Philadelphia's police commissioner telling CNN it appears to be a "stranger abduction." A number of media sources are reporting that Barnes is wanted in connection with a violent incident in Charles City County, Va., and CNN details the "horrific allegations": Per a local police official, a 16-year-old girl who went missing on Oct. 1 was found naked and bleeding two days later, having allegedly been kept at Barnes' home where bleach and gasoline were poured on her. She remains in the hospital, where she is recovering from third-degree burns. Barnes is expected to be charged with abduction, forcible rape, and malicious wounding with a chemical in connection with that crime today. Meanwhile, Freeland-Gaither is back in Philly, reports the Times Dispatch.