Fernando Adrian Diaz, 50, was released at 2:19 a.m. Saturday, July 24, according to sheriff’s inmate records.
The alleged kidnap incident occurred during the early morning hours of Friday, July 23, in West Hollywood’s bar and nightclub area, according to a news release from the Sheriff’s Information Bureau.
Diaz “was seen carrying an unconscious woman to his van and driving away,” the news release states.
Deputy Kevin Herrera told NBC4 he was alerted by a man who pulled alongside his patrol car about 2 a.m. He located Diaz’s white 1997 Dodge Ram van with a black roof and light bar and found the woman inside “completely intoxicated,” Herrera said. “She did not know who’s van she was in.”
Diaz was arrested about 3 a.m. Friday, July 23, according to sheriff’s inmate records.
Relatives of Diaz told NBC4 the incident was a misunderstanding and that the Palmdale man who medically transports disabled patients was probably trying to help someone in need.
Meanwhile, West Hollywood sheriff’s detectives were looking for anyone who had contact with Diaz under similar circumstances overnight on Thursday, or anytime in the past, or has other information.
Diaz is described as Hispanic, 5 feet, 8 inches tall, 165 pounds, with blue eyes and gray hair.
People with information can contact Detective Cynthia Mejia at 310-358-4028 or c2mejia@lasd.org or call Crime Stoppers at 800-222-TIPS (8477).
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Claire says
The Good Samaritan (man who alerted cop) is the Good Samaritan. The man that carried the unconscious woman to his van and drove off is not a Good Samaritan. I believe that any commenter that can’t figure that out is thinking the man that possibly roofied this woman is the Good Samaritan or ANTIFA.
Claire says
Thankful to the Good Samaritan that might have saved her life.
Hyman says
ANTIFA, the courts look the other way. Good Samaritans, they drag you through the mud, shake you down, throw the book at you –
Tim Scott says
LOLOLOL…you took that as “the good samaritan” referring to the guy who carried her to his van and took off with her?
Yes Claire, the guy who flagged down the cop and reported the events may well have saved her life.
Claire says
O.K. Tim, I meant the Good Samaritan that flagged down the cop.
Tim Scott says
I knew that. Hyman’s comment suggests they are…confused.
Barbi says
Kidnapping? Since when does going home with a drunken floozie rate, a felony kidnapping?
Tim Scott says
Because when you have to CARRY them they aren’t “going home with you.” That has pretty much always been true.
Jayden Hernandez says
Tim, it was that overrated cop. To that cop everyone is a kidnapper except himself. If you see a woman passed out on the street, it’s best to keep walking because it’s nobody’s business. Anyone that calls the police will be identified as a suspect until they’re cleared. Who needs the hassale, the police never compensate for mistakes. Stay away from other people’s problems and you’ll always be happy.
C. Thomas says
It’s perfectly okay for BLM and ANTIFA to loot small business into bankruptcy. Bar hopping white guy notching his holster, rounding third base with a floozie? Felony kidnapping, federal offense, 25 years to life.
Tim Scott says
When did “rounding third base” become “slip them a roofie and carry them off”?
And what the heck does BLM have to do with this? Deflect much?
Jayden Hernandez says
It’s funny how the media likes to leave out facts for sensationalism. They didn’t bother to question the lady to get better facts. Did she know him? Where did she get drunk? Is she homeless? The media story will be left without facts so others could speculate or create their own story of what never was.
Tim Scott says
Well, technically this “media story” is pretty much just a press release from law enforcement, and they are probably more interested in poisoning any prospective jury pool than they are in making sure things are put out straight.
That said, the victim’s name is never released, for good reason, so you are not going to see the media question her, ever. The ‘back the badge’ crowd is likely to assume that the police at least got her story and if she said anything like “oh that was a guy I was moving on at the bar and I guess I had one too many” they’d have treated dude a bit better. I am not a back the badge sort myself, but I will say she probably didn’t jump up and down about defending him. The cops are getting kinda wary about railroading people without being comfortable that the victim won’t turn up saying “cops ate my boyfriend.”
It will all play out in court, and anyone who is really interested can piece the story together from court docs and public records…but that will be months from now.
Carlos says
If these whacked out democrats ever summed the barflies and waitresses I’ve bedded, after a night of bar hopping, they’d have me up on well over 50 life sentences, never again would I see the light of day.
Tim Scott says
Soooo…you are saying that only unconscious women will have sex with you?
Trumpist#1 says
LMAO
Kay says
Democrats gone berserk, everything in California’s illegal.
Ivan says
If George Gascon doled out an automatic life sentence for doing what this guy just did, just about every one us would be in jail –
Jayden Hernandez says
They probably knew each other at the bar and he knew were she lived. He probably drove her home. She may have traveled with him to the bar. If it was a misunderstanding that’s really scary if you have to drive your girlfriend or wife home because they’re feeling sick. That why white people live as gays to avert that sort of problem.
Tim Scott says
Probably this, probably that…how about this …he ‘probably’ slipped her a roofie and then “helped” her to his van when it knocked her out.
Now, I freely admit that I wasn’t there and have no idea what actually happened. I am amazed though at all you Don Suavee guys talking about how you have similar ‘conquests’ of unconscious women and figure this was all just fine when there’s no indication that you were there or have any facts either.
Alfred says
… my better-half is disabled with dypsnea, hypoxia, cystic bronchiectasis, a right lobectome, and severe scoliosis. Just one lung. One night, at bedtime, she’d began hyperventilating, couldn’t communicate, nearly smothered, her remaining lung overcome with a rush of mucus. I picked her up, carried her through the snow to the hospital.
Not knowing what the problem was, ER nurses called police, to have me arrested for, spousal abuse. Not one scrape or bruise on her body, I was promptly released with a polite apology.
Pushing back, escalating formal grievances against attending nurses, for bearing false witness, I was able to get one month’s hospitalization refunded, and a polite apology.
The fellow in the picture above with the blue hair, at the very least, is owed a polite apology.
Observation says
Palmdale Man looks like he is in a punk band.
Palmdale Man says
“She did not know who’s van she was in.”
Nothing like putting oneself in danger…
Tim Scott says
Any odds on whether she legit drank herself into that state or got roofied?
R on his mind says
Beware of this man that has Rohypnol on his mind. Creepy dude.
Tim Scott says
LOL…sure man, and the guys saying “where’s the crime here, I bang unconscious chicks all the time” don’t merit any comment from you at all? I think what’s creepy here is that you are obviously obsessed with me.
Jayden Hernandez says
Suppose it was a misunderstanding. He’s not smart because now the media labeled him a criminal with his picture all over the world. He most likely will lose his job and he’ll have to live as a homeless burglar munching on chips inside a walmart. We pay taxes and vote for representatives to fix all the problems yet every year the problems in society still linger.