An Ohio woman was arrested after being caught on tape drunkenly impersonating a CPS worker in attempts to lure her neighbor's 4-year-old child into her car.
Lisa Nacrelli, 44, was hit with criminal child enticement, burglary and impersonating an officer for the attempted kidnapping. According to the boy's parents, Nacrelli could be heard over the home surveillance system asking the young boy if he wanted to come home with her several times and that she had a “really pretty car seat” for him inside her car.
When the young boy had enough of the woman inappropriately touching him he went inside and got his mother. Nacrelli yells out to the boy to tell his mother that her name is Lisa and she's with Child Protective Services.
“She shows me a badge that says her name,” Jaimie Spradlin told WCPO-TV. “She proceeds to rattle off my children’s names.” After letting her inside, both Jaimie and her husband became increasingly suspicious of Nacrelli. They watched the surveillance footage after she left and contacted police immediately after. “Your intention was clearly to take my son, to convince him to walk down the street with you to this house, which I didn’t even know you lived this close which is terrifying in of itself,” said Spradlin.
In a handwritten statement, Nacrelli said that she was drunk at the time of the incident but only acted in what she thought was the best interest of the boy. “I had been drinking since I woke up that morning,” she wrote in the affidavit. “I walked to Kroger to get more beer on the walk home I saw a young child that I felt wasn’t being supervised so in an attempt to scare the parent I pretended to be from CPS.”
