Update (December 17, 2019):  A 16-year-old girl who was allegedly abducted in front of her mom while walking in New York reportedly staged her own kidnapping.

According to the New York Post, Karol Sanchez staged the kidnapping incident with her boyfriend because her mom was overprotective.

Police issued an Amber Alert on Tuesday after the teen was reportedly abducted by four men in a tan car around 11:30 p.m. on Monday. Friends of her boyfriend operated as the "kidnappers," and she allegedly spent the night at her boyfriend's place. Nearby surveillance video captured her mother being pushed to the ground during the incident.

Witnesses said Sanchez's mother was visibly shaken after seeing her daughter driven away. 

“She was just screaming ‘My daughter, my daughter, my God, someone please help me.’ She was screaming hysterically. And I was looking, wondering what was going on. She was just screaming in the street,” one witness said.

Sanchez was reunited with her mother on Tuesday around 2:30 p.m. CBS New York reports she suddenly showed up at the scene and turned herself in.

According to the New York Daily News, Sanchez and the four accomplices realized the magnitude of their stunt after the Amber Alert was issued. 

“Once they realized what they did, with the Amber Alert on their phones, it was like, ‘Oh, s**t, we got a problem,’” a source told the outlet. 

People in the neighborhood immediately recognized Sanchez as police walked with her toward a parking garage after she was found. A crowd gathered as she was reunited with her family just feet from where she had been reportedly kidnapped.

“She was shaken up. She was bending over, grabbing her knees, and discussing with the police. And that’s when they took her into the parking garage for questioning,” resident Zani Koxha said.

“We was at the pole over there, looking at her picture, and we walked up the block, she was crossing the street to the cop car, and I was like, ‘Yo, that’s her right there,'” another resident said.

Chief Rodney Harrison said she was found "safe and unharmed" while thanking the work of law enforcement.

Shortly after being found, family members said she was doing "fine" and that the kidnappers hadn't "touch[ed] her."

NBC News reported investigators said the four men appeared to be in their 20s, however, no charges have been filed. 

Original (December 17, 2019): An Amber Alert was issued for 16-year-old Karol Sanchez on Tuesday.

Sanchez was snatched while with her mother at approximately 11:30 p.m. on Monday in the Melrose section of the Bronx reports ABC 7 NY.

Footage released by NYPD shows two men emerging from a beige four-door sedan and grabbing Sanchez on Eagle Avenue as she walked with her mom to the train station at Jackson Avenue. Her mother tried to fight back against the men but was overpowered. The vehicle then sped off east, leaving Eagle Avenue near East 156th Street.

PLEASE HELP IN LOCATING MY COUSIN KAROL SANCHEZ, SHE WAS LAST SEEN ON EAGLE AVENUE BRONX NY AT 11:20 PM MONDAY NIGHT WITH HER MOTHER WHKM SHE WAS KIDNAPPED FROM, IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION PLEASE CALL NY STATE AMBER AT 866-697-2623 pic.twitter.com/H5lnCozBkS

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A search for Sanchez has begun.

The teen is described as being 5 feet, 5 inches tall and weighing 150 pounds with short black hair and brown eyes. At the time of the abduction, she was wearing a dark blue short jacket, a white sweater or shirt, blue jeans, black sneakers and a white backpack. 

According to PIX 11, the mother was unharmed and didn't request medical attention. 

The suspects are described as being four men in their 20s wearing dark clothing. 

Sanchez and her mother currently reside in Poughquag, located in Dutchess County. The pair were in the city for a doctor's appointment Monday morning. 

Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS.

According to the National Center For Missing and Exploited Children, apart from Sanchez, there are currently two additional active Amber Alerts in the NY Tri-State area. 

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