Story by Beaver County Radio News Correspondent Sandy Giordano
(Pittsburgh, Pa.) The Allegheny County Sheriff’s Department announced this morning that Lilandra Redman 20, formerly of Rochester,PA was wanted for child abduction-non-parental and luring a child from Woostock, IL to PA last month. According to information from the sheriff’s department she met the victim online and had been in contact with him for a few years. The two used social media and apps to converse, as well as a disposable phone which Redman got to the victim by way of another student.
On August 3 she traveled to the child’s home in Illinois in a Uber inthe early morning hours. The child left his parents a note saying he was traveling to New York City with a woman named Jessica.
The victim reset his phone and left it behind in illinois. They traveled by air back to PA, and located the victim the night of August 3 in Beaver County at the victim’s address. Redman was not at the address, according to the report.
On August 19 police in Woodstock IL charged Redman , police have been searching for her to no avail. Allegheny County Sheriff’s deputies began pursuing her and found her last night at a home in the 2900 block of Versailles St. in McKeesport. She was apprehended without incident. She is lodged in the Allegheny County jail awaiting extradition to Illinois. She was also charged with fugitive from justice.