An Illinois man was arrested in Chicago in an alleged plot to abduct “a little boy” from a Fort Lauderdale school and hold him for a ransom, federal prosecutors said.
Devontay Shields, 35, of Danville, Illinois, was arrested Saturday at Union Station as he attempted to board an Amtrak train to Miami, according to a criminal complaint filed Sunday in U.S. District Court in Chicago.
Shields allegedly plotted to kidnap a random boy from an undisclosed private school in Fort Lauderdale and hold him for a $100,000 ransom, the criminal complaint said…