MIAMI — A mother told Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies she came out of an Oakland Park IHOP Saturday morning to find her car — and the 3-year-old son she left inside — were stolen. BSO’s looking for the man they say drove off with car and child.
The agency says that’s 33-year-old Phillip Pepe, who online court records say was arrested Thursday on drug charges as well as a driving with a suspended license charge. Now, he’s wanted on charges of kidnapping, grand theft auto and false imprisonment of a child.
BSO says Pepe has a right arm tattoo and an abrasion under the left eye. Online court records from the arrest say he stands about 5-foot-7 and weighs 156 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes. His address on the arrest is “at large,” but is listed as Lake Worth on a July 2022 traffic violation.
