Regina Castillo steals car with two children inside and their mother does something desperate to save them

• A woman identified as Regina Castillo stole a car with two children inside.
• The mother of the little ones took desperate action to prevent them from being kidnapped.
• The impressive scene was recorded by a security camera.

The impressive scene was recorded by a security camera. A mother took desperate action to prevent a woman, later identified as Regina Castillo, from kidnapping her two children after she stole the family’s vehicle.

Regina Castillo, 29, of New Mexico, allegedly stole a car while two children were inside on July 4 in Hobbs, New Mexico. The Hobbs Police Department reported that a woman parked her white Hyundai Santa Fe in front of a store. When she returned, the suspect pushed her, quickly got into the vehicle and sped off, according to the New York Post.

Regina Castillo stole a vehicle with two children inside

According to The Sun, a video from a traffic camera recorded how the mother, identified as 33-year-old Melody Maldonado, tried to stop the theft of her car by making a drastic decision and climbing on the hood of the vehicle. However, she was unable to stop the alleged thief.

Inside were a 6-year-old girl and an 11-month-old baby, Melody Maldonado’s children, whose maternal instinct made her jump onto the moving vehicle to try to stop Regina Castillo. Later, when police officers located the car, they discovered that the suspect had left the little girl at an intersection before trying to flee from authorities, the Post reported. Apparently, she abandoned her for fear that the cell phone she had on her would be traced.

The mother of the little ones made a drastic decision to prevent them from being kidnapped

The suspect, who was eventually identified as Regina Castillo, then abandoned the car and began to flee on foot from the police officers. She was captured after being found hidden behind a truck in a residential area, the outlet reported.

In addition to the charges Regina Castillo will face in connection with the vehicle theft, she already had three active arrest warrants, including failing to appear on charges of concealment of identity, shoplifting, and failure to appear for traffic violations, police said.

The suspect already had arrest warrants for other crimes (click on the image to see the video)

Following the incident, Regina Castillo was charged with illegal appropriation of a motor vehicle, aggravated flight from a law enforcement officer, two counts of child abuse, resisting/evading or obstructing an officer, and three counts of failure to appear, the New York report said.

Previously, the Post noted, she had been charged with assault on a household member, two counts of resisting/evading or obstructing an officer, two counts of shoplifting, forgery, four counts of failure to appear, and one count of concealment of identity. Regarding the victims, it was reported that the children were reunited with their mother after being treated by the emergency services.