AMBER ALERT

The woman charged with snatching a baby from a south Minneapolis apartment and setting off a four-hour hunt told the mother that she recently miscarried a child, according to a felony kidnapping charge filed Friday.

Diaz-Castillo is also the subject of an “immigration detainer” from federal officials who suspect she is in the United States illegally.

She remains jailed in lieu of $100,000 bail, with a court hearing scheduled for Monday.

Isabel Diaz-Castillo, 30, was found with the baby late Wednesday afternoon in the basement of a home a few miles from where she allegedly snatched 8-month-old Carlos Orozco.

Diaz-Castillo confided in Orozco that she had had a miscarriage in the past few months, the complaint added.

About 3:45 p.m., officers were called by someone who saw an Amber Alert and reported seeing Diaz-Castillo’s vehicle in the 3700 block of 3rd Avenue S. Officers went to a home in the block, where Diaz-Castillo’s brother and his wife live, and found the suspect in the basement with the baby.

He added that although Diaz-Castillo showed interest in the baby, “Nothing appeared to be inappropriate” prior to the kidnapping.

Freeman said it doesn’t appear that Diaz-Castillo’s actions were anything more sinister than those of a troubled woman.

Asked whether Diaz-Castillo has emotional problems, Freeman said, “There’s some fragments of evidence here that Castillo had lost a child recently to a miscarriage and that she was missing that child, and the actions that took place don’t seem right.

But we don’t have any indication, nor is there any records that we have today of prior mental illness.”