Cops: Father Who Kidnapped His Own Son Caught After Asking Kids For Drugs

Michael Streko had a big dream: take his 8-year-old son and the boy’s mother, Amy, on a cross-country video trip called “On the road with the Strekos.”

That dream quickly died. The Strekos lost custody of their son, Everett, then they kidnapped him and disappeared for eight days, authorities say.

The parents were arrested Friday after the father, Michael, asked other children for “drugs” in Port Jervis, N.Y., according to local police.

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At approximately 5:30 p.m. on Friday, a caller to the Port Jervis City Police Headquarters reported a “suspicious male subject” was walking in the area of Ball Street and Pennsylvania Avenue asking children for “drugs,” police said.

The caller advised police that the subject was operating an RV that was parked nearby on Pennsylvania Avenue. Officers were dispatched to the area and located the subject, identified as Michael Streko, 34, of Neptune, operating the motor home on Pennsylvania Avenue.

Officers interviewed Streko and his wife, Amy, 32, of Green Brook, and learned that both subjects were wanted for the felony crime of custodial Interference.

Officers took the subjects into custody and charged them with being fugitives from justice after unlawfully removing their 8-year-child from the child’s residence in Green Brook, where he lived with his grandmother and custodial guardian, and his mother, police said.

Port Jervis City police officers located the 8-year-old child who was safe and unharmed inside the motor jome. The child was transported to Port Jervis Police headquarters where he was reunited with his grandmother at PJPD Headquarters, police said.

Port Jervis Police are continuing the investigation with the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office and the Green Brook Police Department into this incident.

The defendants were arraigned by Judge Matthew Witherow in Port Jervis City Court on felony charges for being fugitives from justice, and were remanded to the Orange County Correctional Facility without bail pending extradition hearings in Orange County Court.

A piece of video showing the family readying for their reality-T.V. dream could be evidence since the 8-year-old boy was missing for eight days, and local law enforcement and the State Police asked for the public’s assistance.

Photo: Amy Streko, Everett Streko, Michael Streko