A Florida woman accused of posing as a child protective services employee tried to kidnap four children from a home after she arrived to "remove" a 9-year-old boy from the residence, authorities said. Nicole Terry Thomas, 56, was arrested Friday, February 13, on four counts of attempted kidnapping, one count of unarmed burglary of an occupied dwelling, two counts of criminal action under the color of law, one count of trespassing, and one count of misuse of 911, according to the Polk County Sheriff's Office. "In what was probably the only smart thing she said or did that afternoon, Nicole Thomas admitted to detectives that she should have known better," Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said in a Monday, February 16, news release on Thomas' arrest. "She impersonated a government employee, threatened to take four children, and even called 911 to try to get a deputy to help her pull it all off," Judd added. "I'd say she didn't clearly think that one through." A public defender representing Thomas did not immediately respond to Us Weekly's request for comment on Wednesday, February 18. On February 13, Thomas caused deputies to arrive at a Lakeland home after she allegedly called the sheriff's office's Emergency Communications Center to ask for help in removing children from the residence, according to the sheriff's office. Mom Arrested After She 'Forcibly Dunked' Someone Else's Kid in Resort Pool Thomas told a dispatcher that she was a Florida Department of Children and Families employee, the sheriff's office said. Before the call, Thomas went to the home - while pretending to be a DCF employee - where a 28-year-old woman was babysitting a 9-year-old boy and three other children, according to the sheriff's office. Thomas arrived at the home with the 9-year-old's biological mother, who "has been diagnosed with mental disabilities, and does not have custody of her son," the sheriff's office said. The boy's biological mother later told detectives that she and Thomas attended the same church and that Thomas told her she was a DCF employee, according to the sheriff's office. The woman also shared that Thomas offered to help get her "life back on track, to include getting custody of her son," the sheriff's office said. According to Thomas' arrest affidavit, Nyasia Brooks, who was babysitting the woman's son and the three other children, reported that Thomas informed her that she was a DCF case manager who was supposed to pick up the 9-year-old and "take him to his mother." Brooks said that she told Thomas that she would not be cooperating with her, according to the affidavit. That is when Thomas allegedly threatened to take all four children from the house, the affidavit says. Florida Mom, Boyfriend Arrested After Autistic Child Nearly Beaten to Death Thomas then headed to the end of the home's driveway and made a phone call "to which she advised she would be working late due [to] finding homes for all of the children she was going to be removing from the residence," according to the filing. Brooks repeatedly told Thomas to leave, but she did not, the affidavit says. Instead, Thomas - who never showed Brooks proof that she worked for DCF - called 911, according to the filing. A judge denied Thomas bond on Sunday, February 15, according to the sheriff's office. She is due in court for a pretrial hearing on February 19.