Crime & Safety
Kim Woo, Kidnapped 2-Year-Old, Found Safe In The Bronx; Dad In Police Custody
The 2-year-old was kidnapped from Staten Island by her dad, Johnny Woo, police said. He was taken into NYPD custody when the pair was found.
STATEN ISLAND, NY — An hours-long amber alert was canceled late Tuesday afternoon after police found missing Staten Island 2-year-old Kim Woo safe in the Bronx.
The little girl was found with her father, 45-year-old Johnny Woo, around 2:50 p.m. on the Major Deegan Expressway, an NYPD spokesman said.
Her father was taken into custody at the scene, police said.
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Multiple alerts were sent to New Yorkers' cellphones Tuesday as cops searched for the little girl, who was believed to have been kidnapped by her father on Staten Island early that morning.
The father and child disappeared around 8:30 a.m. near Ismay Street and Forest Hill Road in Staten Island and may have crossed the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge into South Brooklyn shortly after, according to ABC7.
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AMBER ALERT: Kim Woo - Female, 2 years old ... Last seen Feb 7, 2017 in Staten Island, NY ... Black 2014 Kia Sorrento #GHH8886 (NY) pic.twitter.com/Sqt3aOeSzL
— Nancy Grace (@NancyGrace) February 7, 2017
#Alert AMBER Alert: Kim Woo F/A/2; Staten Island, NY, in black '14 Kia Sorrento, NY reg: GHH8886. Seen? Call 911 #alert pic.twitter.com/9IrxezvHT7
— NYCEM - Notify NYC (@NotifyNYC) February 7, 2017
The girl's father had last been seen driving a black 2014 Kia Sorrento with New York license plate number GHH8886, officials said. His daughter was last seen wearing pink pajamas.
Cops feared the 2-year-old could be in danger.
The little girl's mother, who has custody, is reportedly a 35-year-old NYPD sergeant. The mom called in her child as missing after her estranged husband became violent during an argument about their divorce — then grabbed the girl out of her car seat, put her in his Kia Sorrento and zoomed off, according to ABC7.
"Basically, there was a domestic dispute, and then the father took the child," an NYPD spokeswoman said.
The mother was recovering Tuesday at Richmond University Medical Center after being "struck in the torso" during the dispute with her ex, police said.
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