Authorities called off a search Monday for a Cahokia man who police originally believed abducted his daughter from the custody of her mother late Sunday.

Carbondale Police officer Jeff Vaughn said that after an investigation, police determined that Rickie Renard Jackson, 33, of Cahokia did not do anything wrong when he took his 5-year-old daughter, Rashand, from her home in Malibu Mobile Home Park, 2461 S. Illinois Ave., at about 10:15 p.m. Sunday.

Vaughn said because there was no legal separation or divorce proceedings, Jackson had just as much right to Rashand as her mother.

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Jackson reportedly arrived with two friends at trailer No. 116, which belongs to his wife Patricia Jackson, 42, and asked if he could take their daughter for the weekend.

Samuel Brown, who also lives in that trailer, arrived shortly after and began arguing with Rickie Renard Jackson and his two companions. Brown was chased from the scene and ran to a Convenient Food Mart where he called the Carbondale Police Department.

When police arrived at the trailer there was no one there.

Patricia Jackson called the Carbondale Police Department at about 12:45 a.m. Monday to report the incident. Police said Patricia Jackson said she did not report the incident sooner because she thought Rickie Renard Jackson would return Rashand.

During the five years Patricia Jackson and Rickie Renard Jackson had been married, they have been living apart because he was serving time in Shawnee Correctional Institute for armed robbery and arson. He also served time beginning in 1989 for felony possession/use of a weapon or firearm and in 1986 for burglary.

Patricia Jackson filed for a divorce in March 1997 on the grounds of extreme and repeated mental cruelty. Her lawyer received permission to dismiss the case, though, because he said Patricia Jackson did not cooperate by failing to keep a current address on file with the lawyer’s office.