Dustin Garret Cook

We have more information about the arrest of Dustin Garret Cook of Cartersville on Sunday afternoon for kidnapping a minor.

His ex-girlfriend stated that Cook took her son from Budgetel Inn on Carson Loop in Cartersville after informing Cook that the child would be spending the night with an uncle. She stated that she never married Cook, there is no paperwork about visitation, and Cook had not been legitimatized.

After a deputy called Cook and asked him to return to Budgetel, he did so and was then arrested for kidnapping.