"There was no kidnapping or anything like that," Vincent Marchese told Channel 9 Eyewitness News. The interview(watch) was conducted at the Orange County Jail. Marchese was in a wheelchair and heavily bandaged on the arm and leg after being bitten by a police K-9.

Marchese said he and the three year old named Alex lost track of time after leaving the hospital Monday around noon. He says he was on the way back to pick up the boy's mother, 22-year-old Brittany Higgs, up when cops began to follow him.

"I didn't know what their intentions were," he said.

Marchese said he didn't pull over because he had a suspended license and didn't want to go to jail.

That's when Marchese said cops started to ram the van with their patrol cars, endangering the child's life.

"That police car hit that van every single time," he said.

Marchese ditched the van in a Maitland neighborhood, leaving the boy inside. An extensive search that night turned up nothing, but he was captured after a neighbor found him sleeping in her garage the next morning.

In the interview, Marchese admitted to being a marijuana and cocaine user but said he did nothing inappropriate with the child.