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New York Post
· collected 2026-09-17 · by Kevin Sheehan, Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
Off-duty NYPD officer Anyia James Roberts, seven months pregnant, saved her four-year-old son from a suspected kidnapper near a McDonald's restaurant in Crown Heights, Brooklyn on Wednesday evening. The incident occurred when the woman attempted to grab the child from his grandmother outside the fast-food establishment around 5 p.m., causing a struggle between the would-be abductor and the boy’s grandmother until Roberts intervened. Police are investigating and have released surveillance images of the suspect, urging anyone with information to contact Crime Stoppers.
Written locally by qwen2.5:14b on 2026-09-17,
using this article's own text rather than the other coverage of the
same event (that is the story summary below).
Story summary
On Monday at around 5 PM, a stranger attempted to kidnap a 4-year-old boy from his 66-year-old grandmother outside a McDonald's on Eastern Parkway near Utica Avenue in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. The would-be kidnapper grabbed the child by his shirt and tried pulling him across the street. Luckily, the boy’s off-duty NYPD cop mother, Anyia James Roberts, who is currently 7 months pregnant, intervened to save her son from the stranger. No injuries were reported, and the suspect fled without the child. The NYPD released surveillance images of the woman: she was wearing a white shirt, black shorts, and black sandals at the time of the incident. Police are actively seeking public assistance in locating the suspect through their Crime Stoppers hotline.
Written for “Hero Cop Mom Saves Boy From Kidnapper” on 2026-09-18,
grounded in this article and the 1 other(s) covering the same event.
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or critically written without being left or right, and scoring it
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No political leaning scored for article 16516 · logged 2026-09-17
A Brooklyn dad called his cop wife a hero for saving their 4-year-old son from the clutches of a crazed woman who tried to snatch the boy from his grandma in an horrific attempted kidnapping earlier this week.
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who → call → kidnapping
“His mom pulled him away from her,” dad Gentle Roberts said Thursday of his off-duty cop wife, Anyia James Roberts, who is 7 months pregnant.
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who → pull → wife
“She’s a strong woman.
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She → ’ → ?
She’s back at work today.”
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She → ’ → work
Gentle Roberts said the tot was with his grandma outside a Crown Heights fast McDonalds when the stranger grabbed the boy by his shirt and tried to pull him away.
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stranger → say → him
“She was saying, ‘That’s my kid!’
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That → say → ?
She was saying that more than once,” Roberts told The Post.
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Roberts → say → Post
“The lady grabbed him by his shirt on his shoulder, and she wouldn’t let go.
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she → grab → shoulder
She was fighting his grandmother.
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She → fight → grandmother
They were pulling him back and forth, and he started crying.
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he → pull → him
“She didn’t look homeless.
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She → look → ?
She had a phone.
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She → have → phone
They never seen her before.”
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They → see → her
Cops said the unnerving encounter took place around 5 p.m. while the youngster was with his 66-year-old grandmother on East Parkway near Utica Avenue.
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youngster → say → Avenue
That’s when the woman tried to grab the youngsters, until the boy’s mother stepped in to play both super mom and super cop.
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mother → ’ → mom
Police are still looking for the would-be kidnapper, who ran off after the boy’s mom grabbed her son, who was scared and crying but otherwise fine – and was back at school Thursday.
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who → look → school
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Report → start → news
Meanwhile, police released surveillance images of the suspect, and asked anyone with information on her whereabouts to call the NYPD Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS.
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police → release → TIPS
“I want them to find her because if she don’t get him, she could come back and she could try to get him again,” Gentle Roberts said.
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Roberts → want → him
“Or she could try to get some other kid.
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she → try → kid
She’s definitely not right.
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She → ’ → ?
I would tell her to turn herself in.
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I → tell → herself
They’re looking for you.”
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They → look → you
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