‘Good old-fashioned police work’: Former FBI agent applauds police in rescue of 9-year-old from alleged abductor’s camper

Left: Photo of Charlotte Sena (family handout). Right: Craig N. Ross Jr., who has been arraigned on kidnapping charges, in Milton, N.Y. (Saratoga County Sheriff’s Office via AP). Background: Photo of Moreau Lake State Park where Sena was reported missing (via Moreau Lake State Park Facebook page).

Police in upstate New York are digging into the past of an alleged child abductor after a 9-year-old girl he’s accused of kidnapping was reunited with her family.

Saratoga County sheriff’s deputies arrested Craig Nelson Ross Jr., 46, on Oct. 2. He’s charged with first-degree kidnapping in connection with the abduction of 9-year-old Charlotte Sena.

Sena was camping with her family at Moreau Lake State Park, north of Albany, when she was abducted. Around 6 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 30, Sena went on a bike ride with friends. According to police, she told her friends she wanted to go around the loop one more time by herself. When she didn’t return to the campsite, her parents found her bike abandoned on the path.

The family called 911 and first responders had swarmed the state park shortly thereafter. Reports indicate that more than 400 personnel were involved in the search, both on foot and using drones. But Sena was not located in the park.

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