Child abducted from custodial father’s home by mother from out-of-state, cops say

MONDAY UPDATE: Thomasville, Georgia, police told Hialeah police that the Roy Stephens III has been found. Roy Stephens II is on his way to Georgia to get his son.

A 7-year-old boy was kidnapped from his father’s legal custody Saturday morning, Hialeah cops say. The abductor: his mother, in a car with three other adults.

Roy Stephens II wasn’t expecting a visit from his ex-wife Rickquita Wright at the home in the 2300 block of West Sixth Court he shares with 7-year-old Roy Stephens III, according to Hialeah police. But, they say, the reason for Wright’s 8:30 a.m. drop-in soon became apparent.

“Once Mr. Stephens was distracted, Wright put the child in her vehicle and fled the scene in a silver Toyota Corolla with an unknown Georgia tag,” Hialeah cops say in a release. “The vehicle was occupied by two unknown males and an unknown female.”

Wright is 5-foot-7, weighs about 240 pounds and has black hair and brown eyes. Though the car had Georgia plates, online records say her previous addresses were in Miami, Opa-locka and Raleigh, North Carolina. Police later said the car she was in was a 2019 silver Toyota Corolla Enterprise Rental car with the Georgia tag CGZ9069.

Roy Stephens III is 4-foot-7, 75 pounds and suffers from asthma. He was wearing a white shirt and blue shorts.

Anyone who knows where they might be can contact Hialeah police at 305-687-2525 or Miami Crime Stoppers at 305-471-TIPS (8477) or via the Miami Crime Stoppers website.

This story was originally published October 14, 2018 at 12:07 PM.