TACOMA, Wash. — An FBI agent who helped rescue a baby kidnapped from a Washington state hospital in 1997 got quite the surprise at his retirement party.
The News Tribune reports Sowers retired Friday as a special agent in charge of an FBI field office in Knoxville, Tennessee. He says seeing Rembert, who's in the Marines, was a great way to leave the agency.
The infant Rembert was taken from his mother's hospital room in Lakewood, Washington. The ensuing investigation led to a trash bin, where Rembert was found in a box.Rembert says he was game when a Sowers' colleague asked him to attend Sowers' party. He called meeting Sowers a privilege.
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