As the search continues for the woman forcibly abducted in Philadelphia's Germantown neighborhood, her family is talking about a former boyfriend who, they say, was "obsessed" with her.Carlesha Freeland-Gaither has been missing since being snatched off the street Sunday night.Surveillance video not only showed Carlesha's abduction, it also showed the vehicle involved.Police say that car had a front license tag which indicates it could be from Maryland.Carlesha was raised in Maryland and returned to Philadelphia two years ago.The family says a former boyfriend from Maryland was obsessed with her and tracked her down."It scared her so she backed off from him, but he found her. When she came up here he found her," one family member said.Meanwhile, Carlesha's ATM card was used at an ATM just off I-95 in Aberdeen, Maryland at 6:01 a.m. Monday morning. A surveillance image of the person who used the card was shown to the family."I did not recognize the person in the picture, but I know (the boyfriend) has a light complexion. The picture was not very clear, but - if I had to say - it's a possibility," said Carlesha's grandmother, Ana Mulero.Carlesha's family is pleading for her safe return."Please give me back my child. Please give me give my baby. I just want my daughter. Please let her go," said her mother, Keisha Gaither."Just release her, we're not asking for anything else. If you want somebody, come get me," her father, Carl Freeland, said. "Whatever you're asking for, just get into contact with me and my family. All we want back is my daughter."Her sister spoke directly to Carlesha, saying "If you see me or hear me out there, just know that I love you and we want you to come home."A $47,000 reward is being offered in this case. Some of the money is being offered for both an arrest and conviction, some for an arrest only.Authorities hope the reward and the dramatic surveillance video of the kidnapping released Monday will lead to a break in the case."We need to find this young lady," said Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey. "We need to find the person responsible and get him in custody and get her home safely."The surveillance video released by police on Monday shows Freeland-Gaither's violent abduction in chilling detail.It happened at 9:40 p.m. Sunday in the 100 block of West Coulter Street.You can see someone park a 2000-2002 dark gray metallic 4-door Ford Taurus with Pennsylvania plates by the street.A man in a hooded sweatshirt gets out of the car and goes out of view, but then comes back dragging Carlesha.She is seen struggling against her abductor while being dragged down the street. Police say she kicked out both rear windows just before the car sped away.Police found Carlesha's glasses and mobile phone lying on the road where the abduction occurred.On Monday they also picked up a glove at the scene as possible evidence.Carlesha's family says she worked as a nurse and had spent the evening visiting with her godson before heading home.They say she was just blocks from her home when she was abducted.The suspect is described as a black male, 5'10, medium-heavy build, 25-30 years-of-age, medium brown complexion, wearing a dark colored jacket with a dark colored hood possibly a hooded sweatshirt underneath, dark colored hat, and dark colored pants.The vehicle is described as a 2000-2002 dark gray metallic 4-door Ford Taurus with an unknown PA license number, an unknown plate on the front bumper, rear spoiler, and both driver and passenger side rear windows broken out. The vehicle is missing inspection stickers and has an unknown item in the center bottom of the front windshield.Anyone with information about the incident or Carlesha's whereabouts is being asked to call Philadelphia Police Northwest Detectives at 215-686-3353. ||||| Carlesha Freeland-Gaither is escorted from Howard County General Hospital in Columbia, Md. early Thursday morning by Philadelphia Detectives James Sloan (left) and John Geliebter (partially obscured). STEVEN M. FALK / Staff Photographer 
 
 The investigators watching the sedan with the broken windows in the parking lot in Jessup, Md., on Wednesday evening saw two figures in the backseat: a man and a woman they hoped was a 22-year-old from Philadelphia who had been violently abducted three days earlier. Then the man climbed into the front seat and tried to pull away. The ATF agents closed in with guns drawn. The man surrendered without a fight. The terrified woman in the backseat gave her name: Carlesha. And with that, the three-day ordeal that stretched across state lines and galvanized police and the public came to an end, with Carlesha Freeland-Gaither injured but safe, and a wanted man with a history of violence in custody. 
 
 Delvin Barnes, 37, will face federal charges, officials said. 
 
 "He's a vicious predator," Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey said at an evening news conference. "Hopefully, he'll be off the streets and in jail for the rest of his life, because that's what he deserves." 
 
 At the commissioner's side, a smiling Keisha Gaither, Freeland-Gaither's mother, thanked law enforcement officials and the public for her daughter's safe return. 
 
 "I'm taking my baby home," she said. 
 
 Freeland-Gaither, a nurse's assistant who moved to Philadelphia from Maryland two years ago, was grabbed by a man while walking along the 100 block of West Coulter Street on Sunday night. She had been on the way home from her godson's birthday party. The abduction was caught on video, showing a man stalking the woman, grabbing her, and dragging her into a waiting Ford Taurus. She was struggling and screaming during the few seconds it took for her abductor to drag her to his car. 
 
 The video, which police released Monday and which was widely broadcast, shows the woman kicking out two of the car's windows. 
 
 Barnes' arrest was the result of determined police work, a family's dedication to finding a daughter, and sheer luck, including a credit report so bad it led a car salesman to put a GPS device in Barnes' Ford in case it had to be repossessed. 
 
 That device became critical Wednesday afternoon when law enforcement officials near Richmond, Va., recognized Barnes from news reports as the man they were looking for in an unrelated case, in which Barnes allegedly assaulted and poured bleach on a young girl. On Tuesday, the FBI put out a wanted poster with Barnes' photo for that attack. 
 
 After conferring with law enforcement officials in Philadelphia and agreeing they were looking for the same man, investigators used the GPS device to track Barnes to a parking lot in Jessup. 
 
 Tim Jones, a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives special supervisory agent, told reporters in Maryland on Wednesday night that Freeland-Gaither was hysterical when she was found. 
 
 "She was very emotionally distraught. We took her to the hospital," he said. 
 
 After an ATF agent calmed her down, Freeland-Gaither was able to say her name, bringing relief to a family that had been praying for her return. 
 
 On Wednesday night, family members, friends, and well-wishers began gathering around 7:20 on Coulter for what was to be a candlelight vigil. Instead, it became a celebration. 
 
 Karen Reddy and sister Patricia Reddy-Gaither had returned early Wednesday from a trip to Maryland to put up fliers in the search for Carlesha. 
 
 "We couldn't sit still," said Reddy, 55, a cousin. 
 
 The sisters were joined by other relatives in two cars on the trip. They put fliers at a PNC bank where Freeland-Gaither's ATM card was used, at a nearby Wal-Mart, and at gas stations. 
 
 Reddy-Gaither, 49, who said she was Carlesha's aunt, said she was overwhelmed with joy when she heard the news. 
 
 "First thing I'm going to do is hug her," she said. 
 
 After the news conference announcing the happy ending, Philadelphia detectives drove Keisha Gaither to Howard County Hospital to reunite with her daughter. 
 
 The two had already talked on the phone. "She told me she loved and she missed me, and to come get her," Gaither said, adding, "I'm going to get my daughter." 
 
 Detectives also hoped to be able to interview Freeland-Gaither about her ordeal. 
 
 As late as Wednesday afternoon, detectives believed the abduction may have had some connection to people from Freeland-Gaither's childhood in Maryland, but police later said they believed Barnes, who was charged in 2005 with the violent rape of an estranged wife in Philadelphia and who has a long criminal record, targeted her at random. 
 
 In the 2005 attack, Barnes was accused of breaking into the victim's Northeast home and raping her, and later assaulting her father. He was acquitted of rape but convicted of aggravated assault, and was sentenced to four to eight years in prison. 
 
 In Freeland-Gaither's abduction, police said Wednesday night they believed Barnes did not know the woman he is charged with kidnapping. 
 
 Northwest Detectives Capt. James Smith said, "Right now, we're just taking it on as a stranger investigation." 
 
 Ramsey on Wednesday night praised his detectives' work over the last three days and thanked the media for spreading awareness and the public for sending in tips. 
 
 At the news conference, Keisha Gaither hugged the lead investigators on the case, Detective Jim Sloan, who she said had sat at her kitchen table for hours after her daughter's abduction and promised he would bring her home. 
 
 "And he brought my baby home," she said through tears. 
 
 Sloan, who worked the case with Detectives John Geliebter, Brian Boos, and Ed Davis, credited the speedy response of an eyewitness on the street, who called 911 twice at the time of the abduction, then retrieved Freeland-Gaither's cellphone and glasses from the street where they had fallen. Though the cellphone was locked, Freeland-Gaither's boyfriend called, and police were able to quickly notify her family members and tell them to mobilize with a social-media campaign. 
 
 As hours stretched into days, investigators amassed videos documenting Barnes' movements in Maryland after the abduction - showing him using Freeland-Gaither's ATM card at a Maryland bank and buying chips at a gas station - released them online, and asked for the public's help. 
 
 Police also obtained more video of the abduction, showing more clearly the brief but violent interaction between the woman and her kidnapper. 
 
 Though with each passing hour the chance that Freeland-Gaither could be brought back unharmed dimmed, Sloan said investigators never lost hope. 
 
 Then, on Wednesday, they got a break. 
 
 A woman in Havre de Grace, Md., found a receipt from an Acme Market in Rhawnhurst, a broken key chain, smashed glass, a zip tie, and an empty bag of Herr's potato chips. The receipt led to a video showing Barnes buying chips at the Acme. Detectives thought, Sloan said, that they were closing in. 
 
 Soon, Sloan said, his phone rang. A police officer assigned to the ATF in Philadelphia told him another law enforcement agent in Virginia had recognized their suspect as the man they were searching for in a case involving a young girl. 
 
 After police in New Kent County, Va., made the connection, FBI investigators agreed. "It went down real quick," Sloan said. Within hours, an ATF agent in Jessup was telling him police had Carlesha. 
 
 That's when the "good moment" came, Sloan said. When he called Keisha Gaither's house, Carlesha's sister picked up. She sounded forlorn, Sloan said. 
 
 "Don't sound so gloomy," Sloan said. "Why don't you just start cheering? We found your sister, and she's safe. Put your mom on." 
 
 When Keisha Gaither took the phone, Sloan said, all she kept saying was, "Get me to my baby. Get me to my baby." 
 
 awhelan@philly.com 215-854-2961 @aubreyjwhelan 
 
 Inquirer staff writer Robert Moran contributed to this article. ||||| Carlesha Freeland-Gaither was found alive in Jessup, Maryland Wednesday night after she was abducted in Philly Sunday. Delvin Barnes was arrested in connection to the abduction. NBC10's Nefertiti Jaquez has the details. (Published Thursday, Nov. 6, 2014) 
 
 Less than 72 hours after being violently snatched off a Philadelphia street as she walked home from visiting her godson, Carlesha Freeland-Gaither has been rescued from the "vicious predator" police say kidnapped her. 
 
 Now as she recovers from the attack that was caught on video and seen nationally, focus moves to her alleged abductor, who authorities have linked to a similar crime against a teenage girl. 
 
 "I’m taking my baby home. Thank you," Keisha Gaither, the woman's overjoyed mother, told the public at a news conference Wednesday night. Her family erupted into applause as the woman spoke. 
 
 Carlesha's Mom Thanks Detective for Keeping His Promise Watch as the mother of Carlesha Freeland Gaither thanks the detective who personally promised her officials would find her abducted daughter. MORE DETAILS HERE. (Published Thursday, Nov. 6, 2014) 
 
 New Surveillance Video Released in Woman's Abduction 
 
 The 22-year-old was rescued from the car of her alleged kidnapper, 37-year-old Delvin Barnes, in a Jessup, Maryland, parking lot Wednesday afternoon, officials said. She suffered some injuries and was taken to a nearby hospital in Columbia, Maryland, for treatment, police said. She was listed in good condition and is expected to recover. 
 
 “It’s very special for all of us. You hope, you hope, you hope, but you don't really know until you're actually able to get her, and make sure she's OK. So it's very important that this has a happy ending," Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey said. 
 
 Carlesha Freeland-Gaither, 22, was rescued by federal agents on Nov. 5 following her abduction in Philadelphia three days prior. Her alleged kidnapper, Delvin Barnes, is pictured right in an undated mugshot. 
 
 Photo credit: NBC10 
 
 Agents moved in quickly after receiving a tip from the ATF Office in Richmond, Virginia, which was investigating Barnes. They believed the man may have been the suspect after seeing surveillance photos in news reports, Philadelphia detectives said. 
 
 Authorities began tracking his gray Ford Taurus through a GPS device placed inside the vehicle by the car dealership where it was purchased, detectives said. The GPS was installed because Barnes had poor credit, officials said. 
 
 Agents honed in on his location, in a shopping center parking lot, and moved in to strike. 
 
 "He was more surprised than anything," ATF agent Tim Jones said of the arrest. 
 
 Barnes and the victim were in the backseat of the car when agents arrived, but he quickly jumped into the driver's seat to try and flee, Jones said. Agents blocked his way and took him into custody. 
 
 Freeland-Gaither screamed hysterically for help as the arrest was taking place, telling the agents she was the woman who had been abducted in Philadelphia, Jones said. 
 
 "Once she had time to process what had happened you could tell she was emotionally distraught," he said. 
 
 Barnes, who has ties to Philadelphia, apparently attacked Freeland-Gaither at random, detectives said. He is being held on an warrant for attempted murder of a 16-year-old girl last month in Charles City County, Virginia. 
 
 Alleged abduction suspect Delvin Barnes' gray Ford Taurus is loaded onto a flatbed to be taken into evidence. 
 
 Photo credit: NBC10 
 
 "He’s a thug and this is what he does apparently," Ramsey said of the alleged abductor. “He’s a vicious predator. He’s off the streets." 
 
 Barnes will be charged federally in the alleged kidnapping and assault, said Edward Hanko, special agent-in-charge of the FBI's Philadelphia division. Officials said many times that the investigation remained fluid and had a long way to go. 
 
 A Three Day Ordeal 
 
 Freeland-Gaither's rescue puts an end to three intense days of searching by Philadelphia Police, the FBI and her family. 
 
 The nursing aide was grabbed as she walked along Greene Street near W. Coulter Street in the city's Germantown section at 9:40 p.m. Sunday. She was returning home from a visit to see her godson. 
 
 The woman was forced down the street and into a car. She struggled to get away, fighting her attacker and breaking out the car's rear passenger window. But she couldn't escape -- her glasses and smartphone left on the sidewalk. 
 
 The entire ordeal was caught on surveillance video and widely shared. 
 
 DevelopingNew Clues in Woman's Violent Abduction 
 
 An intense manhunt ensued with the search quickly expanding from Northwest Philadelphia to Aberdeen, Maryland, where Freeland-Gaither's ATM card was used by a man early Monday morning. 
 
 Her family made tearful pleas for the woman's safe return and continued posting missing posters through Wednesday, never giving up hope. 
 
 Detectives got a break in the case from a woman living in Havre De Grace, Maryland. In her driveway, the woman found a bag of trash that included a receipt from an ACME supermarket in Northeast Philadelphia, a bag of Herr's potato chips and shattered glass. 
 
 The woman, who asked to remain anonymous, told NBC10 that she initially thought it was just trash, but later called authorities after talking to a friend about the case. 
 
 Abducted Woman's Emotional Parents Beg for Her Release 
 
 Investigators were able to use the receipt to hone in on the supermarket and gather clear surveillance video of Barnes from the day of the attack, detectives said. In the video, he could be seen buying the same chips that the woman found, police sources said. 
 
 RAW: New Surveillance of POI in Abduction Case Authorities released new surveillance video Wednesday showing a person of interest in the abduction of 22-year-old Carlesha Freeland-Gaither, who was snatched from a Germantown street Sunday night. (Published Thursday, Nov. 6, 2014) 
 
 Officials thanked the public for helping to move along the investigation. 
 
 "We worked tirelessly, around the clock, investigated every lead that we had, and we really appreciate the public coming forward giving us a hand, giving us all the information that we were able to sit there and work on," Philadelphia Police Northwest Detective Division Capt. James Smith said. 
 
 "Problems With Women" 
 
 Barnes has a long history with the law. 
 
 Philadelphia Police arrested the man in November 2005 on a slew of charges including rape, burglary, aggravated assault, making terroristic threats and reckless endangerment, according to court documents. 
 
 Police reports obtained by NBC10 stated Barnes beat, sexually assaulted and held his estranged wife captive -- defying a protection from abuse order. The woman is also the mother of his child, family said. 
 
 VideoAbduction Suspect Once Held Ex-Wife Captive 
 
 He jumped from the woman's closet, grabbed her by the face and dug his nails into her skin, according to the reports. He held her in the home overnight and allegedly forced her to have sex with him, the police report states. 
 
 The next morning, the woman begged Barnes to let her use the phone and call her parents. As she spoke to her mom, she was able to indicate she was in trouble and told her mother to call 911, according to investigators. When the parents arrived, Barnes began to beat them before they were able to escape and call police, according to the reports. 
 
 Barnes was eventually arrested, charged and found guilty of aggravated assault, criminal trespassing, false imprisonment and related charges, the documents show. 
 
 Delvin Barnes, 37, is accused of abducting a Philadelphia woman and holding her captive for three days. The kidnapping prompted a multi-state search resulting in his arrest on Nov. 5. 
 
 Photo credit: Philadelphia Police 
 
 Lamar Barnes, the man's uncle, told NBC10 Wednesday night that his nephew recently was released from prison. He said the man is the son of a minister and that he's had trouble with women in the past. 
 
 “It’s just hard for me to accept the viciousness of it, not necessarily surprised. You know some men grow up having problems with women so they take it out on women. Apparently he’s one of them," Lamar Barnes said. 
 
 The uncle said he's glad to hear that Freeland-Gaither is safe and that Delvin's parents are "devastated" by the allegations. 
 
 "If he’s somebody I didn’t know, I would say whatever they do to him is fine. Well, he’s my nephew, same thing. What am I gonna do," he said. 
 
 Two weeks ago, officials in Virginia dropped charges against Barnes. According to court records, he was arrested in July for making a bomb threat, which is a felony. That charge was amended to trespassing, a misdemeanor, and the case finally dropped on Oct. 24, the records show. 
 
 Four days later, sheriffs in Charles City County, Virginia, linked Barnes to the abduction, rape and torture of a 16-year-old girl. 
 
 Authorities said the girl went missing on Oct. 1 and showed up two days later at a business. She was naked, bloody and covered in burns smelling of bleach and gasoline, officials said. 
 
 Abduction Suspect Also Accused of Raping Teen 
 
 DNA tests came back as a match to Barnes on Oct. 28, officials said. A warrant was issued and he was charged with attempted capital murder, abduction, forcible rape, malicious wounding, malicious injury with acid, explosives or fire and intimate object penetration, authorities said. 
 
 Coming Home 
 
 A Philadelphia Police caravan left the city late Wednesday carrying about 15 members of Freeland-Gaither's family to the hospital for a reunion with the victim. 
 
 The family made their way back to Philadelphia early Thursday morning in an effort to help the young woman move past the assault and begin the healing process right away, at home. 
 
 WATCH: Carlesha and Family Leave Hospital Watch as Carlesha Freeland-Gaither and her family leave the hospital in Maryland hours after she was found safe. (Published Thursday, Nov. 6, 2014) 
 
 "Thank you so much for having us in your prayers, thank you for keeping me up. Thank you for being there for us," the woman's mother, Keisha Gaither said. 
 
 Carlesha's Mom Thanks Detective for Keeping His Promise Watch as the mother of Carlesha Freeland Gaither thanks the detective who personally promised her officials would find her abducted daughter. MORE DETAILS HERE. (Published Thursday, Nov. 6, 2014) 
 
 NBC10 reporters Rosemary Connors, Nefertiti Jaquez, Denise Nakano, George Spencer, Randy Gyllenhall, Tim Furlong and Deanna Durante and investigative producer Jim O'Donnell contributed to this report. 
 
 Contact Vince Lattanzio at 610.668.5532, vince.lattanzio@nbcuni.com or follow @VinceLattanzio on Twitter.
– A big lead in the search for a woman snatched from a Philadelphia street: Bank cameras captured an unknown man using an ATM card belonging to Carlesha Freeland-Gaither less than nine hours after she was kidnapped. Police say the card was used early on Monday about 75 miles from Philadelphia near a highway exit for Aberdeen, Md., the AP reports. The missing 22-year-old's family says an ex-boyfriend from Maryland was obsessed with her and managed to track her down after she moved to Philadelphia from the state two years ago, reports ABC 7. Her grandmother says she doesn't recognize the person in the grainy security camera images, but there is a possibility it could be the ex-boyfriend. Her parents have pleaded for her safe return, NBC reports. "Please give me back my child. Please give me my baby," her mother begged, while her father urged the kidnapper to "just get in contact with me and my family. Again, not pressing no charges or nothing like that. All we want back is our daughter." Police have described the suspect as a black man in his 20s, about 5 feet 10 inches tall with a heavy build. They say he is probably driving a 2000-2002 dark gray metallic four-door Ford Taurus—the vehicle Freeland-Gaither was forced into—with an unknown Pennsylvania license number, an unknown plate on the front bumper, and both driver- and passenger-side rear windows broken out.