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Published: Dec 3, 2006

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FORT MYERS - Authorities searched Saturday for a newborn after he and his mother were abducted by a knife-wielding woman in a sport utility vehicle, police said.

Brayn Dos Santos Gomes was abducted with his mother, Maria Fatima Ramos Dos Santos, on Friday afternoon by a woman driving a black SUV, Fort Myers Police Chief Hilton Daniels said.

Ramos was freed south of Fort Myers shortly afterward, but the woman kept the baby, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement said.

Police think the woman could be heading to Miami or Tampa in the two-door SUV, which has window tint that is peeling, police said.

The mother and Brayn, as well as another woman and a baby, were approached by the woman in the SUV while walking along a road Friday, police said. The driver asked for directions to a neighborhood. The women agreed to give directions and entered the vehicle with their children, police said.

Later, the driver forced one mother and child out and left with Ramos and the baby, police said.