Emotional Reunion as NYC Couple Reunited With French Bulldog Stolen in Home Invasion

A Brooklyn couple was tearfully reunited with their beloved French bulldog, Coco Chanel, late Monday night—just hours after the dog was stolen during a violent home invasion.
Coco was recovered after the armed suspects abandoned her in a garage at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center. Hospital staff took the dog in and recognized her from a news report, setting in motion a chain of events that led to her safe return.
The couple later traveled to Staten Island, where nurse Amy O’Sullivan had temporarily taken Coco into her care, for an emotional reunion with their two-year-old pet.

“I missed you,” Coco’s owner, Kevin, said while hugging and kissing the dog. “I was devastated. My heart just broke. Thank God she was found so quickly. I was so emotional.”
He thanked O’Sullivan for helping reunite them, saying the thought of losing Coco—whom he comes home to every day—was unbearable.
Coco was taken early Monday morning when four armed suspects broke into the couple’s Bushwick home, demanded valuables, and fled with the dog along with $8,000 worth of Pokémon cards, police said.
Hours later, O’Sullivan’s wife, Tiffany Latz, also a nurse at Wyckoff Heights, was alerted that a dog was wandering the hospital parking lot after being dropped off by the suspects.

“She went outside, found the dog in the cold, and brought her into the hospital,” O’Sullivan said. “Then she saw the article and realized—‘Oh my God, that’s the dog.’ That’s how everything started.”
O’Sullivan, a 62-year-old mother of three and devoted animal lover who owns five pets—including a paralyzed French bulldog—temporarily cared for Coco until her owners were found. She said Coco refused to eat kibble, so she fed her tuna and oatmeal while waiting for the reunion.
“This is a great story,” O’Sullivan said. “Most of what I see is really bad stuff—so this one means a lot.”
As of late Tuesday, the four home invasion suspects remained at large, and the investigation is ongoing.