It was Valentine's Day, and 29-year-old Steven Fleming "came home hungry after a hard day's work at a construction site." He apparently wasn't expecting any big Valentine's Day dinner from his 16-year-old girlfriend (more on that later), Aliyah Austin (pictured on right). But he at least was "ready to sink his teeth into a Hot Pocket." And that's when all hell broke loose! (Link to full story at bottom).Fleming took a gander in the freezer and fumed as he realized that someone had polished off his last Hot Pocket! Fleming then woke up his girlfriend Aliyah and "confronted her about scarfing down his snack." Apparently not satisfied with the answer he received, Fleming allegedly clocked her one right in the kisser.
End of story, right? Wrong. "In a cold dish of revenge," Aliyah the next morning allegedly kidnapped Fleming's 3-year-old daughter after Aliyah's old man (much older man) had gone back to work at the construction site. Cops say Aliyah snatched the toddler and absconded from Staten Island to Manhattan on a ferry.
Fleming for some reason didn't return home that day until midnight (apparently a Hard Day's Night to celebrate a hard day's work). After finding no daughter or girlfriend present at the home, he called the cops and the search was on. (It's not clear whether he first went for a Hot Pocket before discovering that the two girls were gone).
Not being the brightest bulb on the marquee, Aliyah soon after the kidnapping reportedly took to taunting Fleming on Facebook and in text messages about the fact that she had his daughter. (No word whether she stuck out her tongue as she fired off those blasts).
Cops were able to track down Aliyah and the little tike through Aliyah's cellphone signal, and the kid was unharmed. It looks like Aliyah may have to finish off her Hot Pockets in the hoosegow for a long time to come, as she faces kidnapping charges and is being held for bail of 25 grand.
According to her attorney, Aliyah's defense is that "she took the baby because Fleming was late coming home." So let me get this straight: Aliyah kidnapped the kid not because of the slap in the mush, but instead kidnapped the kid because her boyfriend stayed out late?
I've got to try out that defense the next time I get pulled over for speeding: "Yeah, copper, I wasn't speeding because I wanted to exceed the speed limit; I was actually speeding because I wanted to get home faster!" Or for an accused murderer: "I didn't kill him because he hit me; I killed him because he made me angry for other reasons entirely!"
Regardless, Aliyah's arrest was finally the end to this story, correct? Of course not. We're still left with the little matter of the adult Fleming having a 16-year-old "girlfriend." Cops say the couple had met earlier in the week on the subway and "she began crashing at his house."
Aliyah denied to cops that she had a sexual relationship with Fleming, "although investigators believe the two are romantically involved." Translation: Those two may be holding their next Hot Pocket bout together in the pokey.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/staten_island/kidnap_snack_in_the_face_sge0IrAMbcWSjGKdnZsloJ
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