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Terrifying footage shows the moment a man tried to abduct a child in broad daylight as the little boy’s family were leaving a pharmacy.
Footage from inside a Miami Beach pharmacy on Thursday allegedly shows Nicolas Sternman, the suspected kidnapper snatching up a 4-year-old boy as his family left the CVS on Collins Ave at around 11.55am. Sternman walked into the store just as the 4-year-old boy and his parents were exiting the building. As the boy’s mother walked out the door Sternaman, 26, hunched over and allegedly grabbed the child by the neck and lifted the boy into the air while attempting to flee the store, according to WPLG.
The surveillance video shows the boy’s father leaping into action and grabbing hold of Sternaman while the boy’s mother pulls her son from the kidnapper’s clutches. As the furious dad wrestles with Sternaman the boy is knocked to the ground, as Sternaman’s jacket gets ripped off in the brawl.
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The boy's father acted quickly, grabbing the attacker (WPLG Local 10)The father then slams Sternaman into the store’s glass door as the mother rushes to pick up the little boy off the ground. As a horrified crowd forms around the tussle, the boy’s dad can be seen to draw his fist back as if to punch Sternaman before the two seemingly exchange words, after which Sternaman walks out of the door.
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“Everyone was just shocked because it was so quick and it was so fast. The guy just came out of nowhere,” witness Zachary Jefferson told CBS Miami.
Mugshot for 26-year-old Nicolas Sternaman (Miami-Dade County Corrections) (Miami-Dade County Corrections)
As Sternaman ran from the store he was chased by a witness and the boy’s father. A witness and the father were following him southbound on Collins Avenue when he took off his sweater and threw it, according to police. Police officers joined the chase and Sternaman was arrested three blocks from the store, Local10 reported.
A police report, quoted by CBS Miami, described how the little boy was left visibly shaking and clutching to his mother in fear.
The family were just leaving the pharmacy when the man, in a dark coat, tried to snatch their 4-year-old boy (WPLG Local 10)Sternaman was charged with kidnapping a child under 13, aggravated assault, and battery, jail records show. He is being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. Miami Beach police officers had arrested Sternaman for petit theft on January 3 and he was released on a $150 bond, according to Miami-Dade County court records. His status hearing was at 8.am, on Thursday and his trial for the pending misdemeanour case was April 1.