Overview
- Police say a man led a 4-year-old girl out of Laundry Kingdom in Patchogue and away from her mother.
- During the search, the girl’s mother found her in the Patchogue-Medford Library children’s area.
- Officers reviewed surveillance footage and said the suspect left through the laundromat’s rear exit.
- Police arrested Carlos Corte, 38, near the business and reported he was not known to the family and had an outstanding warrant.
- Corte faces counts of second-degree kidnapping and endangering the welfare of a child and is being held ahead of arraignment at First District Court in Central Islip, police said.