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Police interview alleged kidnapping suspect
Posted: 02.17.2011 at 5:20 PM Updated: 02.18.2011 at 9:45 AM
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AMARILLO, TEXAS -- UPDATE: Friday, February 18: Thursday evening, an officer saw the suspect vehicle and stopped the white Ford pickup described as a suspect vehicle involved in the incident. The officer stopped the pickup in the 1000 block of N. Manhattan.
The driver was the man the victim indicated. An APD detective interviewed the man. The suspect was released pending further investigation.
Previously posted:
A 41-year-old woman says she was kidnapped by a man she has known for several years.
It started Thursday afternoon around 2:45p.m. when officers were dispatched to River Road Middle School on a kidnapping call. When they arrived, the woman said that she was at a meeting in the 200 block of North Hughes, where she asked a man she knew for a ride home. She said that she knew him, but had not talked to him in some time.
Once in the vehicle, the man told her he had to make a couple of stops before taking her home. He made a stop at a house near Amarillo Boulevard and Arapahoe, and she told police she continued to ask the man to be taken home. They got back in the car, and she believed he was taking her home, but he got on the Dumas Highway and drove north outside of city limits. She told police he made reference to kidnapping her, and was not taking her home.
When they got close to the Mobley Street exit, she starting screaming to be let out of the vehicle. He took the Mobley exit, and slowed down. That's when the woman jumped from the moving vehicle. She ran to the River Road Middle School where she found an unlocked door, and went inside for help. The man exited the vehicle, and went into the school to try and find her.
School personnel hid her from the man, and called police.
The suspect went back to his vehicle, and left the area, he is still at large.