{"id":348290,"date":"2026-09-16T13:10:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T13:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/348290\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T13:10:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T13:10:56","slug":"woman-who-tried-to-kidnap-boy-near-brooklyn-mcdonalds-restaurant-still-at-large-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/348290\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman who tried to kidnap boy near Brooklyn McDonald\u2019s restaurant still at large: cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"991\" height=\"629\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/brooklyn-kidnap-suspect-09162026.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"woman sought for attempting to kidnap boy in brooklyn\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   title=\"Woman who tried to kidnap boy near Brooklyn McDonald's restaurant still at large: cops 1\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Detectives in Brooklyn are looking for the woman who attempted to snatch a child off the streets in a brazen kidnapping attempt earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Photos courtesy of NYPD<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Detectives in <a href=\"https:\/\/amny.com\/brooklyn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Brooklyn<\/a> are looking for the woman who attempted to snatch a child off the streets in a brazen kidnapping attempt earlier this week.\n<\/p>\n<p>The NYPD released images of the female suspect behind the incident, which occurred at about 5 p.m. on Sept. 14 in front of a McDonald\u2019s restaurant at 1133 Eastern Pkwy. in Crown Heights.\n<\/p>\n<p>According to police sources, the woman approached the 4-year-old boy while he stood with his grandmother in front of the fast food eatery and attempted to grab hold of the youngster and pull him away.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-137869658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Screenshot-2026-09-16-at-8.28.29-AM.jpg\" alt=\"scene of brooklyn kidnapping attempt\" width=\"1200\" height=\"889\" title=\"Woman who tried to kidnap boy near Brooklyn McDonald's restaurant still at large: cops 2\"  \/>Police said the attempted kidnapping occurred at about 5 p.m. on Sept. 14 in front of a McDonald\u2019s restaurant at 1133 Eastern Pkwy. in Crown Heights.Photo via Google Maps<\/p>\n<p>Sources said the grandmother then intervened and was able to stop the kidnapper, who then fled on foot southbound along nearby Utica Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was reported to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypd77pct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">77th Precinct<\/a>. The boy was not physically injured.\n<\/p>\n<p>Police said the would-be kidnapper had a dark complexion and was last seen wearing a white shirt, black shorts, and black sandals.\n<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding her whereabouts can call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS (for Spanish, dial 888-57-PISTA). You can also submit tips online at <a href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">crimestoppers.nypdonline.org<\/a>, or on X (formerly Twitter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypdtips\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">@NYPDTips<\/a>. All calls and messages are kept confidential.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detectives in Brooklyn are looking for the woman who attempted to snatch a child off the streets in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[3926,105946,98,19820,100,99,130247,19401,303,102,54581,130248,107443,9,24,63,103,104756,6399,27889],"class_list":["post-348290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-77th-precinct","tag-attempted-kidnapping","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-crime","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-child-abduction","tag-child-safety","tag-crime","tag-crown-heights","tag-eastern-parkway","tag-kidnapping-attempt","tag-missing-suspect","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-nypd-crime-stoppers","tag-police-investigation","tag-utica-avenue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348290","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=348290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}