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PARKERSBURG -- A Wood County woman who allegedly left the state with her five children after losing custody of them was apprehended Thursday in North Carolina.
Alicia Galluccio, 32, of Parkersburg, was arrested by members of the East Spencer Police Department after being located at a relative's home in East Spencer, N.C. Wood County Sheriff Steve Stephens said she faces five charges of parental kidnapping when she returns to the Mountain State.
An order from Wood County Family Court signed Thursday grants custody of Galluccio's five children to their father, Stephens said. When the father's girlfriend came to the Wood County Circuit Clerk's office to get a copy of the order, Galluccio arrived and "took off with" the children, who range in age from teens to single digits, the sheriff said.
License-plate readers tracked Galluccio's cream-colored 2008 GMC Acadia traveling south, Stephens said. Authorities were able to locate her cell phone in East Spencer.
Stephens said Galluccio is in custody pending extradition proceedings but the children remain in North Carolina with a family member due to conflicts with West Virginia and North Carolina law and other issues.
Parental kidnapping is not a capital offense like kidnapping, but it carries a potential prison sentence of one to five years, Stephens said.