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<\/p>\nA community in Brooklyn is heartbroken after a beloved bodega cat was apparently stolen.<\/p>\n
The Innab family, who owns the Eighth Street Mini Market in Park Slope, had just opened up for the day on Thursday when the 3-month-old kitten, named Jabal, wandered outside.<\/p>\n
“My dad noticed that the cat wasn’t inside, and he got very worried, so after that he looked at the surveillance,” Moe Innab said.<\/p>\n
Surveillance video captured the moment when a couple walked by. The man is seen swooping in, cradling Jabal, who seems to be squirming in the man’s arms. They then quickly took off.<\/p>\n
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Surveillance video shows a couple taking a cat from outside a Brooklyn bodega and walking away on Sept. 10, 2026.<\/p>\n
Eighth Street Mini Market<\/p>\n
“To just steal a random cat outside, and it obviously wasn’t a stray cat,” Innab said. “It’s something I wouldn’t think of somebody doing in this neighborhood.”<\/p>\n
Innab says his father had just gotten Jabal to replace the bodega’s former mascot, Victoria, after she died. The kitten had a collar and was weeks away from getting microchipped.<\/p>\n
Neighbors were saddened to hear the news.<\/p>\n
“You gotta be a bad person to do that. It’s like really mean and everyone loved that cat,” neighbor Seb Mitchell said.<\/p>\n
“There’s so many animals that need places to live, so to take it from a loving owner is so ridiculous and horrible,” neighbor Hope Thompson said.<\/p>\n
“Every time I went into that deli, there would be a line of people just going and petting the cat and saying hi to it,” Mitchell said. “It was like a celebrity.”<\/p>\n
The family is offering a $500 reward for Jabal’s safe return, no questions asked.<\/p>\n
“We all make mistakes. I’m no one to judge, you know. Maybe they weren’t in their right mind,” Innab said.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information is urged to contact the Eighth Street Mini Market directly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A community in Brooklyn is heartbroken after a beloved bodega cat was apparently stolen. The Innab family, who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-345417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=345417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}