According to a CNN report, Ann Pettway was in custody Sunday after surrendering to police in Connecticut.
The CNN report quotes a source who said Pettaway was arrested after she contacted a Bridgeport, Connecticut, police officer via Facebook from Stratford, Connecticut.
A warrant was issued Friday in North Carolina for Pettway for allegedly violating her two-year probation sentence on attempted embezzlement charges.
She is suspected in the abduction of Carlina Renae White. After 23 years, White tracked down her real mother earlier this month, saying she had had a nagging feeling all her life that she was brought up by a family she didn't belong to.
The North Carolina warrant seeks Pettway's arrest for allegedly violating her two-year probation sentence on attempted embezzlement charges, North Carolina Department of Correction spokeswoman Pamela Walker told CNN.
"As part of her probation, she must seek permission to leave the state of North Carolina," Walker said. "At this time, no such request has been made."
However, CNN reports if Pettway is arrested and charged with White's kidnapping, she would likely be prosecuted at the federal level. No federal warrant has been issued for her.
White's mother, Joy White, told the New York Post last week that she last saw her daughter when she was 19 days old. She took her to a Harlem hospital on August 4, 1987, because the baby had a high fever, a New York police official said. Carlina was admitted to the hospital, and her mother went home to rest. When she returned, the baby was gone.
"That was a big part of my heart that was just ripped apart," Carlina White's biological father, Carl Tyson, told the Post regarding her disappearance.
Carlina White told the Post that Pettway raised her. Pettway was pregnant in 1987, she said, but lost the baby.
"Nobody knew because she was pregnant and came back with me," White said. "She had something set up."
Carlina White was raised under a different name, but always felt she did not belong to the family, said Ernie Allen, president and CEO of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Her suspicions grew after the woman who raised her could not produce a birth certificate for her.
"I just started typing in Yahoo and Google different articles -- anything that pulled up in 1987 with any child that went missing -- and I came across the article, and the baby picture just struck me because ... it looked like my daughter," Carlina White, who has a 5-year-old daughter, told the Post. "I swear I stayed on that article for like a good two hours."
On January 4, Joy White's phone rang. The woman on the other end said she was Carlina, and sent a picture taken in 1987 in which she bore a striking resemblance to a baby picture Joy White had held on to. A DNA test proved the link.
The family has since been joyously reunited. "This is what I wanted ever since I found out that lady wasn't my biological mother," Carlina White told the Post. "I just hope that the officials will be able to get her in their hands so we could just hear her side of the story now."
Her biological family, meanwhile, wants justice.
"I want her to go to jail ... for what she did and what she did to my family," said Lisa White-Heatley, Joy White's sister. "She destroyed my family."
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