Salina Police responding to the report of a possible runaway child on Thursday, instead ended up arresting a man from New Mexico on outside warrants.
Officers were sent to the 800 block on Gypsum on Thursday afternoon, after a call came in on a possible sighting of a runaway juvenile.
Police made contact with the subject, who was in the backyard of the residence.
Also in the backyard was a Chevy Tahoe with a New Mexico license plate. The tag came back to Rudy Barrientos, a 42-year-old Salina resident.
It was in running Barrientos name through the system that SPD discovered his warrant out of New Mexico. The warrant was for robbery, false imprisonment, receiving stolen property, theft of a credit card, aggrevated battery, interference with communications, obstructing an officer, and possession of a stolen credit card.
Barrientos was arrested on his warrant, and will be transported back to New Mexico.
The runaway juvenile, for whom the police were initially responding on, was never located.
