Ann Pettway surrendered Sunday morning to the FBI and Bridgeport police on a warrant from North Carolina, where she’s on probation because of a conviction for attempted embezzlement, FBI supervisory special agent William Reiner said.
Pettway received two years of probation last June after she took items from a store where she worked, which is considered embezzlement under North Carolina law, state correction spokeswoman Pamela Walker said. Under terms of her probation, she wasn’t allowed to leave the state.
North Carolina officials said Friday they believed Pettway was on the run from authorities. They said Sunday they would seek her extradition.
Pettway remained in custody Sunday and couldn’t be reached for comment. She was expected to appear in federal court in New York on Monday to face kidnapping charges, the U.S. attorney’s office said.
Nobody answered when a reporter on Friday knocked on the door of a house where Pettway lived in Raleigh, N.C. A woman who answered the phone at a Pettway relative’s home in Bridgeport on Sunday refused to comment on her surrender.
A woman who lives near Pettway in North Carolina, Sonova Smith, said Pettway mentioned that she had a daughter in Connecticut but had moved to Raleigh with her son. Smith and Pettway both had teenage sons who would often play together, and Smith said her neighbor seemed to be a good mother.
“She was friendly. She was kind. She loved her son,” Smith said. “We talked about our boys often. She talked about family. So, it’s just really been surprising.”
