Charges dropped against mom whose baby was ripped from her arms in Brooklyn
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Dave Evans has the latest on the Brooklyn mother whose 1-year-old baby was ripped from her arms during a disturbing arrest.
BOERUM HILL, Brooklyn (WPVI) — Charges have been dropped against the Brooklyn mother whose 1-year-old baby was ripped from her arms during a disturbing arrest at the Human Resources Administration building and now a judge has ordered her release.
WABC-TV reports, two HRA peace officers have been placed on modified duty and an investigation is underway after video showed an excruciating tug of war between a group of officers and 23-year-old Jazmine Headley, who was facing a slew of charges after the incident that apparently started because there was nowhere for the young mother to sit.
“Like everyone who watched the arrest of Jazmine Headley, I was horrified by the violence depicted in the video and immediately opened an investigation into this case,” Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said in a statement. “It is clear to me that this incident should have been handled differently. An HRA officer escalated the situation as Ms. Headley was about to leave the premises, creating an awful scenario of a baby being torn from his mother. The consequences this young and desperate mother has already suffered as a result of this arrest far outweigh any conduct that may have led to it: she and her baby have been traumatized, she was jailed on an unrelated warrant and may face additional collateral consequences. Continuing to pursue this case will not serve any purpose, and I therefore moved today to dismiss it immediately in the interest of justice. Discretion is the better part of valor, and we must be thoughtful and compassionate in evaluating the merit of our cases.”
Headley had been charged with resisting arrest, obstruction, trespassing and acting in a manner injurious to a child. She had remained behind bars, however, due to an outstanding warrant in New Jersey.
“Our office is conducting an independent investigation into this troubling case, and we are in the process of reviewing all available videos and interviewing witnesses with the intention of reaching a swift decision,” a spokesperson said. “We did not request any bail, and Ms. Headley’s hold is in connection with a warrant from New Jersey. We are reaching out to authorities in that state to expedite her release.”
Later Tuesday afternoon, a judge ordered Headley to be released from Rikers Island based on the Brooklyn DA’s earlier decision to drop the charges.
She must appear in Mercer County, New Jersey, on Wednesday to answer a warrant on charges of credit card theft and trafficking in personal identifying information. A Mercer County judge issued the warrant in July of 2017 after she failed to appear in court for her arraignment.
Full video of arrest:
Video posted to social media shows a group of New York police officers pulling a 1-year-old old boy from his mother’s arms at a social services center.
The NYPD is calling the video “troubling,” and the commissioner of the city’s Department of Social Services says he’s “deeply troubled” by the situation and a “thorough” review is underway. Headley’s outraged family is demanding justice.
It was pandemonium inside the Human Resources Administration building on Bergen Street in Boerum Hill, as police and HRA security officers apparently tried to take the 1-year-old boy from Headley so they could arrest her.
“I was devastated to see something like that happen to my daughter and grandson, and how this officer yanking on my grandson to get him out of my daughter’s arms,” Headley’s mother Jacqueline Jenkins said. “I want people fired, I really do, y’all shouldn’t be working out of a facility where people every day have kids and you don’t have any understanding of caring. They are there to take care of their business like everybody else.”
According to Jenkins, Headley had gone to the HRA building on Friday morning to ask for day care vouchers for her baby so she could work as a cleaner. WABC-TV was told the city agency was slow and crowded, so there were no chairs available, and Headley sat on the floor with her son to wait her turn.
Nyasia Ferguson took the video and confirmed that both Headley and her son were not blocking any doors or passageways. When security guards ordered Headley to stand, Eyewitness News is told the mother refused because there were no seats and she had her baby. A supervisor was called – and then police.
“She called five other security guards, all harassing her, bothering her,” Ferguson said. “Everyone…was like, ‘leave the girl alone, she’s not bothering anyone, just sitting there like all day.’ They kept harassing her.”
Advocates argue her crime was not resisting arrest or trespassing or harming her own child, but simply seeking help from an agency that then had her arrested.
“I was just so disgusted and scared,” Ferguson said. “I thought the cops supposed to help you. They just straight up came and attacked the lady.”
Local woman arrested for allegedly driving drunk with 2 young children in vehicle
By KOB
May 16, 2025 – 6:46 AM
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Local woman arrested for allegedly driving drunk with 2 young children in vehicle
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – A local mother is behind bars after Bernalillo County Sheriff’s deputies say she was driving drunk with her two young children in the backseat.
BCSO says on Wednesday evening they got a call about someone driving recklessly near Isleta Boulevard and Rio Bravo.
When deputies responded, they found the car at a Walgreens just down the road. They say the windows were so tinted, they couldn’t see inside the car. They knocked on the windows, but the driver took off.
BCSO says Felicia Papuyo was behind the wheel. She reportedly crashed into a mailbox in the Walgreens parking lot a few moments later.
Deputies say they asked her to get out of the car for at least 10 minutes, but she refused. They ended up breaking a back window, only to find a 3-year-old and a 3-month-old baby in the backseat. The kids weren’t injured.
BCSO says they found two empty bottles of vodka in the car. Papuyo took a breathalyzer and the result came back at three times the legal limit. She was arrested and is facing multiple charges including child abuse.
DUI Driver With Kids In Car Arrested Again After Mahwah Pursuit: Cops
Cecilia Levine
Updated September 23, 2025
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A New Jersey woman was arrested after fleeing police and being tracked down hours later at a New Jersey motel, authorities said.
On Wednesday, Sept. 17, Officer Gregory Bulick was on patrol in Saddle River when a white SUV sped past him while driving recklessly, the department said in a press release.
Bulick attempted a traffic stop, but police said the driver, later identified as Kaitlyn Slicker-Abulteen, of Warwick, NY, accelerated even more after he activated his emergency lights and sirens. For safety reasons, Bulick ended the pursuit and issued a BOLO to nearby departments.
The Mahwah Police Department spotted the SUV a short time later, but police said it fled from their attempted stop as well. Officers later located the vehicle unoccupied at the Super 8 Motel in Mahwah. Slicker-Abulteen was taken into custody and charged with eluding, resisting arrest by flight, and issued 10 motor vehicle summonses, police said.
This wasn’t Slicker-Abulteen’s first run-in with the law.
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On July 10, around 5:23 p.m., New York State Police said Troopers from SP Tarrytown were dispatched to Interstate 87 in Yonkers for reports of a two-car crash that escalated into a physical altercation.
Investigators said a Volkswagen Atlas driven by Slicker-Abulteen was heading southbound in the right lane when it collided with another vehicle. Before Troopers arrived, the drivers got into a fight on the side of the highway.
When police interviewed Slicker-Abulteen, they said she showed signs of intoxication and failed field sobriety tests. Two children were also in the SUV at the time. She was taken into custody, processed at SP Tarrytown, and later brought to SP Hawthorne, where police said she registered a 0.14 percent blood alcohol content.
Slicker-Abulteen was charged with harassment in the second degree, aggravated DWI under Leandra’s Law, DWI first offense, and operating a motor vehicle with a BAC of 0.08 percent or higher. Police said she was released to a sober third party and given tickets returnable to Yonkers City Court on July 30, 2025. The City of Yonkers Police assisted at the scene.
Court records show Slicker-Abulteen also faces a series of charges out of Toms River stemming from an Aug. 18, 2025 incident. She was charged with operating under the influence of liquor or drugs, refusal to submit to chemical testing, careless and reckless driving, driving with a suspended license, and several related motor vehicle offenses. All cases remain active.
