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WAUWATOSA - Police have arrested the woman accused of abducting a 10-month-old baby girl from her mother's home on Milwaukee Avenue in Wauwatosa.

Diandra Kroening, 19, was taken into custody about 10 p.m. Wednesday while walking in the 1600 block of W. Lincoln in Milwaukee.  

Kroening is suspected of taking the girl Monday night and dropping her off on a dead-end street in West Allis.

Nicole Rodgers and her husband were out on their balcony Monday night when they saw the suspect drop the baby off on the sidewalk across the street from their home on South 75th Street.

"We just couldn't believe someone would leave a baby outside," Rodgers said.

The couple called 911, and took the baby in from the cold night. The baby was OK.

Wauwatosa Police said the incident started when Kroening went to visit the baby's mother at the mother's Wauwatosa home. When the mother asked Kroening to watch the baby while the mother took a shower, police say Kroening took the baby and a bag filled with her clothes.

"The mother came back and discovered that her 10-month-old daughter was missing as well as her friend," Lt. Dominic Leone of the Wauwatosa Police Department said. "She doesn't have any idea why this would have happened."

Nicole Rodgers is just relieved she and her husband were there to help, and that the baby girl is safely back with her mother.

"I don't know what would have happened. It was late at night on a dead end street so we don't know. We are just glad we were there," Rodgers said.

Kroening was charged just last week with a felony for stealing a car in Jefferson County.