A 44-year-old Ohio woman was arrested over the weekend after she was caught on camera trying to lure a 4-year-old boy away from his home.
Lisa Nacrelli was charged with child enticement, burglary, and impersonating an officer, the Norwood Police Department said.
Nacrelli was jailed on Monday after the incident, which took place on Saturday afternoon as the boy was outside his home, sitting on his bicycle. Surveillance footage shows a man walk by and ruffle his hair and moments later, the woman identified as Nacrelli. Although it’s difficult to hear what is said, the boy’s family said Nacrelli asked their son to come home with her three different times while stroking his hair and putting her arm around his back.
The boy keeps his head turned away from her for about three minutes before getting off his bike, throwing up his hands, and telling Nacrelli he’s going to get his mom.
The mom, Jaimie Spradlin, wrote on Facebook that Nacrelli told her she was from Child Protective Services.
“She shows me a badge that says her name,” Spradlin told WCPO. “She proceeds to rattle off my children’s names.”
And she said there’d been a complaint filed against the parents and she asked to come inside for an inspection. She left no contact information.
Spradlin and her husband Tim, the boy’s father, checked the video after Nacrelli left and saw what had happened in the minutes before their son came inside. Then, they learned that Nacrelli was not from CPS.
“Everything was a lie, and now we’re sitting here on top of being enraged that this even happened, terrified because I don’t know what her plan was,” Jaimie Spradlin said. “I know that she told my son that she has a black vehicle and that there’s a really pretty car seat in it for him.”
In a handwritten statement filed with the court, Nacrelli said that she had been drinking since she woke up that day.
“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,” she wrote.
Nacrelli was not carrying any obvious packages from the grocery.
WCPO reported that Nacrelli lives just blocks away from the Spradlins and has had other run-ins with law enforcement related to drinking. Court documents say she was charged with disorderly conduct in 2005 after she “recklessly caused harm to another while intoxicated” and again in 2011 because of public intoxication.
Nacrelli was being held on a $10,000 bond.
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[Featured image: Lisa Nacrelli waits for Jaimie Spradlin to come to the door/Jaime Spradlin]
