In a surprising turn of events, charges of kidnapping against a young Idaho college student have been dismissed. This decision follows an incident where the student was accused of walking away with a shopping cart carrying an infant at a local Costco.

Michael Garrison Raine, aged 24, faced serious accusations last November when he was charged with second-degree kidnapping. Authorities alleged that Raine had taken a woman’s shopping cart, which held her 4-week-old baby, and walked away with it at a Costco warehouse in Idaho Falls. The incident, which occurred on November 20, was captured by the store’s surveillance cameras.

During a recent press conference, Bonneville County Prosecutor Randy Neal and Idaho Falls Police Chief Bryce Johnson announced their decision to drop the charges. They explained that the complete surveillance footage did not support the narrative provided by the baby’s mother, which led to the dismissal of the charges against Raine.

Initially reported by Law & Crime, Raine, a student at Brigham Young University–Idaho, was in the same aisle as the woman in the Costco store’s book section. According to the mother’s account to the police, she noticed Raine hovering around her cart, which was carrying her infant in a car seat. After briefly turning away, she turned back to find the cart—and her baby—missing.

The woman soon located her cart and baby in the adjacent aisle with Raine nearby, leading to his arrest. However, the investigation, upon reviewing the surveillance footage thoroughly, revealed inconsistencies with the initial report, prompting the legal authorities to clear Raine of any wrongdoing.

Raine was tracked down by Idaho Falls Police detectives and told them that he took the cart by mistake, thinking he was walking away with his own empty cart. He told police he walked back to the woman to apologize to her, telling detectives, “I was just so oblivious,” adding, “I really must have been completely out of it.”

At Thursday’s press conference, Neal said that after reviewing the full surveillance video provided by Costco, detectives “did not see any kind of stalking behavior” by Raine. Authorities were also able to see that Raine walked up the aisle with his own cart, which was not seen on the initial cellphone video of the surveillance video that they were provided.

Neal explained that as part of the police investigation, detectives recreated the scene at the Costco with the woman after viewing the surveillance footage. When she went through the events as she remembered them, Neal said, “It was clear, early on, that some of the things that the mother was remembering [weren’t] correct, according to the video.” He added, “Some of her memories were inaccurate.”

“We have a fairly definitive narrative now of what happened after he turned that corner. It’s grainy, it’s not a perfect view. But it certainly seems inconsistent with an intent to take the baby and leave the area,” Neal said.