Mom 'Kidnapped' Kids ; Woman Fled Officers With 2 Children in Car

A n A lbuquerque mother was in jail Wednesday evening after police say she dodged social workers who were trying to take her two small children, "kidnapped" the youngsters from a South Valley home, then fled from officers at a high rate of speed before finally being arrested in the Northeast Heights. When officers did get 31-year- old Stephanie Lynn Brito blocked in and stopped -- shortly before 11:30 p.m. Tuesday -- they had to smash in her car windows with collapsible batons to remove her and her two children from the vehicle, according to a criminal complaint filed in Metropolitan Court.

Both children "were found screaming, crying and visibly upset." Neither child was wearing a seat ...

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