Everett MA Mother Kidnaps Children, Posing As Policeman

BRUNA P. GOMES
[From article]

An Everett mom suspected of posing as a cop and pepper-spraying a baby sitter while taking two of her kids yesterday from their father’s Abington apartment had developed an elaborate plan, police said, apparently watching the father leave for work before springing into action.
“It appears as if the mother was lying in wait,” said Abington police Deputy Chief Christopher Cutter.
But it all unraveled hours later in Yarmouth as police tracked Bruna P. Gomes, 33, to a motel and her lawyer called police telling them not to question the mother as they went to arrest her.

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Abington police said that just before 9 a.m. yesterday, Gomes waited five to 10 minutes after Coelho left for work before knocking on the door of his Walnut Street apartment, police said.
Banging on the door of the basement apartment, Gomes announced loudly she was from the Abington police, cops said. The baby sitter told police he cracked the door a few inches and was hit by a burning cloud of pepper spray.
Gomes gathered up the kids, police said, and the baby sitter — temporarily blinded by the pepper spray — said he heard one kid call out, “Mom, what are you doing?”

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Kidnapped kids back with father
Police: Mother posed as cop, abducted two
Friday, August 7, 2015
By: Brian Dowling
Boston Herald