The parents of the baby girl, who was recently offered for sale on the Craigslist website for $10,000, are well known to police, CTV has learned.
Court documents reveal that the tot's father, Jeremy Pete, has been convicted of car and property thefts, obstruction, and escape from lawful custody.
In 2005, he was running from a stolen vehicle in New Westminster when police dog 'Nitro' gave chase and was killed under the wheels of a train.
The baby's mother Bethany Granholm has a list of convictions too.
They include property theft, fraud, possession of stolen credit cards, impersonation, failing to report to her probation officer, and stealing a car with the father of her child.
Details about the couple's past have surfaced after a Maple Ridge, B.C. woman called police last Friday to complain about the Craigslist ad, which described a baby that seemed to be offered for sale. It described the infant as "very cute" and said it was looking for a good home.
Using a cellphone number that was posted on the ad, police eventually found the baby in a Vancouver West End apartment, which was occupied by four adults including the baby's 23-year-old mother Granholm, who was breast-feeding the infant when police arrived.
Granholm and Pete were arrested and later released, after police failed to find any evidence to support the public mischief charges they were trying to press.
The couple claim the whole episode was really just a hoax.
With a report by CTV British Columbia's Peter Grainger
