Posted 3/29/2007 05:06:00 PM by Douglas

I'm no tele-journalists, but isn't it normally customary, when doing a "hard-hitting, undercover piece" to inform law enforcement if you could be treading close to doing something illegal? Not this chick.

The TV reporter stood a few feet away from the newborn baby and the nurse caring for the child at Northwest Texas Hospital in Amarillo.

But the investigative story she was pursuing at the facility and neighboring Baptist St. Anthony's Hospital on Tuesday night eventually led someone to pay almost $10,000 in bonds for her to leave the Potter County Detention Center about a half-day later.

Amarillo police arrested Cecelia Lynn Coy-Jones, 33, of Lubbock, who works for the NBC affiliate KCBD Newschannel 11 in Lubbock, on suspicion of two counts of attempted aggravated kidnapping Tuesday as she pursued an investigative story about nursery security at the two hospitals.

"She was doing an investigative thing about checking our security," said Sgt. Randy TenBrink of the Amarillo Police Department. "I guess she found out it is pretty good."

The quote of the freakin' year. I hope she has to pay her own bail, friggin' dumbarse.