Arraignment set for kidnapping suspect

Lone Tree resident Rebecca Dinapoli, who faces two charges of second-degree kidnapping, went through her pretrial hearing Feb. 9 and Magistrate John Scipone ordered her to appear in court for arraignment on the charges on March 9. According to the arrest affidavit, on Jan. 8 Dinapoli illegally took her two children, Joseph, 12, and John, 8 from the Englewood home of their grandparents, who had been granted temporary custody of the children by a Douglas County magistrate. The magistrate also ordered Dinapoli not to have any contact with the two boys. Dinapoli’s action triggered an Amber Alert and a tip led Englewood police to locate her and the children. She was arrested without incident, processed and taken to the Arapahoe County jail, where she is being held on $20,000 bond. The case began in the early morning hours of Jan. 8 when the grandfather of the two boys said he was preparing to fly to New York to attend a custody hearing and had the boys ready to go with him. However, according to the arrest affidavit, the boys went out on the porch of the home on South Galapago Street and when their grandfather went to check on them, he said he saw Dinapoli driving away with the children in the car. The grandfather called Englewood police and an Amber Alert was issued. About 10 p.m. Jan. 8, Englewood officers received a tip that Dinapoli and the children were in a home in the 5700 block of South Pennsylvania. Officers went the address and arrested Dinapoli. The children were returned to their grandparents.