{"id":349312,"date":"2026-09-17T14:48:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T14:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/349312\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T14:48:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T14:48:59","slug":"nypd-hunts-for-woman-who-tried-to-kidnap-boy-off-brooklyn-street-in-front-of-his-grandma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/349312\/","title":{"rendered":"NYPD hunts for woman who tried to kidnap boy off Brooklyn street in front of his grandma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman tried to kidnap a 4-year-old boy outside a Brooklyn McDonald\u2019s \u2014 and now cops are asking the public\u2019s help tracking her down.<\/p>\n<p>The little boy was standing with his grandmother outside of the fast food restaurant on Eastern Parkway near Utica Ave. in <a href=\"https:\/\/cityneighborhoods.nyc\/crown-heights\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crown Heights<\/a> when the stranger snatched him away and tried to drag him across the street about 5 p.m. Monday, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Another family member stopped the woman from taking the boy and the woman ran off south on Utica Ave. She has not been caught.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"A woman (pictured) allegedly tried to kidnap a four-year-old boy outside a McDonald's on Eastern Parkway near Utica Ave. in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and cops are asking the public for help in tracking her down. (NYPD)\" width=\"621\" height=\"878\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Image-from-iOS-16.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"9227537\" \/>A woman (pictured) allegedly tried to kidnap a 4-year-old boy outside a McDonald\u2019s on Eastern Parkway near Utica Ave. in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and cops are asking the public for help in tracking her down. (NYPD)<\/p>\n<p>Cops released surveillance footage of the suspect wearing a white shirt, black shorts and black sandals in the hopes someone recognizes her.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/nypd\/services\/see-say-something\/crimestoppers.page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime Stoppers<\/a> at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman tried to kidnap a 4-year-old boy outside a Brooklyn McDonald\u2019s \u2014 and now cops are asking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265],"class_list":["post-349312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349312","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=349312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}