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A stranger tried to abduct a 3-year-old girl walking with her grandmother on a Bronx street Monday but was foiled by good Samaritans, cops said.
Santiago Salcedo, 27, approached the 65-year-old grandmother, who was with the little girl and two infant grandsons, around 1:20 p.m. at the corner of East Tremont Avenue and Baisley Avenue in Schuylerville, police said.
The creep then allegedly threw a comforter around the tot, picked her up and tried to flee with her down the block, a police source said.
The grandmother’s screams alerted people nearby, and they confronted Salcedo, who put the child down, the source said.
A worker at a nearby gas station jumped into action when the girl was taken.
The creep then let the girl loose and started walking back to his scooter by a cemetery on Tremont.
Police caught Salcedo later Monday. He was charged with kidnapping, attempted kidnapping, unlawful imprisonment and endangering the welfare of a child.