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Help ID kidnap suspect in Lancaster

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LANCASTER – Authorities have released a sketch of a man suspected of trying to kidnap a 17-year-old boy at a bus stop in Lancaster earlier this month.

The teen was in the 44300 block of Sierra Highway about 6:30 p.m. Nov. 1 when a man between 30 and 40 years old offered him a ride home, which the boy refused, according to Ali Villalobos of the sheriff’s Lancaster Station.

“The suspect then drove around the block, returned to the bus stop, exited his vehicle — a white two-door older-model Toyota pickup truck — and began chasing the victim,” Villalobos said. “The suspect grabbed the victim by his jacket, but the victim was able to get away and run to safety …”

The teen called 911 and the suspect got back into the pickup truck and drove away.

The suspect was described as black with a slim build and old acne scars on his face. He was wearing a black V-neck T-shirt and dark jeans.

Anyone with information that could help investigators track down the suspect was urged to call (661) 948-8466 to speak with sheriff’s Detective Esswein.

Anonymous tips can be submitted through Crime Stoppers by calling (800) 222-TIPS.

12 comments for "Help ID kidnap suspect in Lancaster"

  1. a guy tried to pick me up at sierra highway too he was old and had the same discription.. but the only problem was he was not in a pick up truck but his car looked like a rental..his car was white though.. :/ and it happend a month before this incident happend

  2. Never fear.Never fear.LEAPS is here.LEAPS is here.LEAPS will catch this bad buy.LEAPS will catch this bad guy.Just like it caught two Wal Mart shoplifters.Just like it caught two Wal Mart shoplifters.For $90,000.00 a month.For $90,000.00 a month.For ten years.For ten years.What a waste of taxpayer money.What a waste of taxpayer money.it is useless.it is useless.Like teets on a bull.Like teets on a bull.No to LEAPS.No to LEAPS.Yes to Sherriffs.Yes to Sherriffs.More boots on the ground.More boots on the ground.No to LEAPS.No to LEAPS.

      • It hasn’t been operating for ten years yet. It’s a ten year contract that is (I think) five years in with five to go.

        As to how many bad guys it has caught…not enough to convince ANY law enforcement agency ANYWHERE to sign up for one. Wrecks used Lancaster money to pay for the first one as a “proof of concept” and it has been proven not to work…but no refunds for Lancaster.

          • I just pulled up Aeroview, LEAPS progress report, and there are numbers provided. Numbers don’t lie but the people that feed the numbers do.

          • Yeah. I think if Aeroview’s numbers could be relied on at least SOMEONE would have signed on for the second LEAPS. Wrecks signed on for the first one as a payback, using Lancaster’s money…but LEAPS is apparently a failure since Aeroview cannot sell a second.

    • You gotta love Rex. He’s always got some gimmick to fight crime. First it was piping bird sounds on the BLVD. He even told the Wall Street Journal that it was lowering crime city wide. It wasn’t true, but that didn’t stop him from making such a ridiculous claim.

      Then he spends $10 million taxpayer dollars on an old Cessna, slaps a camera in it, calls it LEAPS or the Eye in the Sky and tells people that they’re safer. We’re not safer. How many murders this year?

      His latest brainstorm is to bring ‘Asians and The Gays’ to the BLVD to lower crime and raise education levels. His words not mine. ‘Asians and The Gays’.

      What’s next? Some magic pipe that he’ll play and all the riff raff will magically follow him out of town?

      • Rex will probably try to sell the magic pipe like he’s tried-and failed-to sell LEAPS, Ecolution, Traction Seal, Chinese birth tourism, bird sounds, et. al.