A Florida woman accused of posing as a child protective services employee tried to kidnap four children from a home after she arrived to “remove” a 9-year-old boy from the residence, authorities said.
Nicole Terry Thomas, 56, was arrested Friday, February 13, on four counts of attempted kidnapping, one count of unarmed burglary of an occupied dwelling, two counts of criminal action under the color of law, one count of trespassing, and one count of misuse of 911, according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office.
“In what was probably the only smart thing she said or did that afternoon, Nicole Thomas admitted to detectives that she should have known better,” Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said in a Monday, February 16, news release on Thomas’ arrest…