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Bergenfield officers responded to a dispute in progress around 11:45 p.m., Chief Michael T. Carr said.
Officer David Keelor was told by the girl’s mother that 20-year-old Charles A. Vera had just taken away her daughter, who recently broke up with him after five years.
Moments earlier, she said, Vera came to their home “and began ‘banging with his fist on the front door, then he moved to the side windows in an attempt to gain entry,” Carr said.
She said her daughter eventually let him in, and they argued before he dragged her out of the house, pushed her into his car and took off, the chief said.
Carr’s detectives immediately contacted Sprint and submitted a “wireless 911 emergency information request” for cell phone locations on both.
It led them to an address on East 125th Street.
The 25th Precinct of the NYPD was contacted and the NYPD took Vera into custody.
The girl, who was unharmed, was with him, Carr said.
An arrest warrant was issued, with no bail, charging Vera with first-degree kidnapping.
The woman, meanwhile, “was returned home safely” and refused any medical aid, the chief said.
As of 6 o’clock tonight, Vera hadn’t yet been extradited.
Additional charges are pending.
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