Steve Carbajal interview after LE presser day of Tammi's arrest.
Transcription by moi. I left out 'um'.
http://www.azfamily.com/home/relate...gation-zeroes-in-on-San-Antonio-83440787.html
Reporter: She accuses the Tempe police department of arresting her so they could interrogate her hoping that they could get more information. What's your response to that?
Carbajal: Well that's simply not the case. We've been building this case and we've been working with several agencies, including the County Attorney that's going to be prosecuting this case later on down the road. We feel that we obviously had probable cause for the arrest and all the information we had that led us to this arrest
Reporter: She's being charged with conspiracy to commit custodial interference, custodial interference, and forgery. Explain those charges.
Carbajal: Well the forgery has to do with the, admittedly her own admissions about the court documents involving Craig Cherry. The conspiracy and the custodial interference... basically the conspiracy is along with... working along with Elizabeth. Also the custodial interference itself is some information that we have that says that she might have aided Elizabeth along the way
Reporter: All along you guys have said that you don't believe she knows where baby Gabriel is, however she's not being forthcoming with information.
Carbajal: Yeah. We still feel that's the case. We don't have any indication that, that leads us to believe that Tammi knows where baby Gabriel is. That's something that San Antonio Police Department's working on currently, but we're going to, you know, continue helping them as we can but we don't believe that she knows where he is.
Reporter: What about the mother, Elizabeth Johnson. Is she now cooperating at all?
Carbajal: She is not to the best of my knowledge. She has an attorney like we've said before. So her attorney is speaking with the county attorney and I know they're trying to get some information, or at least proceeding with the charges that we have currently in place so that, that's what's going on with that.
Reporter: Has she been able to corroborate any of the information with regard to Tammi Smith?
Carbajal: Hasn't really spoken to us about Tammi Smith that I'm aware of specifically but obviously, that's information that we're trying to obtain and, and there are some conversations between the lawyers that are going on.
Reporter: From the Tempe police standpoint, you guys are pretty much wrapped up with your investigation. Explain that.
Carbajal: Yeah. Obviously our main goal is still to find Gabriel, and short of that, you know, we're kind of disappointed that we haven't found Gabriel yet. We're gonna assist San Antonio with what we can to help them. We want to thank everybody, you know, that's watching right now that has helped, that's stayed on top of the story, because it's been a tremendous help.
Reporter: Any pending charges with regard to the Smiths?
Carbajal: No. At this point, Jack Smith is no longer a person of interest.
Tammi Smith was arrested for what we just spoke about. And unless there's some new information that we're unaware of, nothing will change on that front.
