Kidnapping

A 29-year-old man is arrested and booked for aggravated kidnapping, evade and elude, and resisting arrest. It started in the 3800 block of East Funston. A witness say a man punch a woman and shove her in a car. The witness reported the incident. Deputies saw the car and tried to stop it. The car fled and crashed in the 2300 block of Menlow. The female victim had minor injuries and refused treatment.

Wichita police are investigating after a teenager reported an attempted kidnapping.  It happened in the 900 block of south St. Paul around 7:00 Wednesday evening. The 15-year-old victim reported that she was walking home from a friend's house when a 44-year-old man tried to pull her into his car. The man then asked her how old she was several times before she answered.  Police say the man then drove off saying that she was too young for him. The teen called her father, who called 911.  The suspect was found a few blocks away and arrested.

Salina police say a man tried to kidnap a 21-year-old woman as she delivered copies of The Salina Journal early Monday morning. Police tell our news partners at the Journal, the carrier was walking in the 900 block of Faith Drive when a car approached her. The driver offered her a ride but she refused. Click here to find out what happened next.

Two Wichita teens are arrested, accused of robbing and kidnapping a woman.  The 25-year-old woman says she was in her car at 9th and Grove Thursday when the 14 and 15 year old boys approached her. She says one of the boys put a gun to her head and demanded money. She gave then $500. Later in the evening, the teens were bragging about the robbery to a person who happened to be a cousin of the victim. That person, along with two others, forced both boys to another location on North Erie.

Police arrested a man in Arkansas City for kidnapping Thursday morning. Investigators say a woman and her friend were sitting outside her home when the suspect walked up to their vehicle saying he wanted to kill somebody. The suspect forced his way into the vehicle and told her to drive. The woman was fearful that he might do something to her children who were asleep inside the home so she did what he asked and drove. The woman was able to trick the suspect by telling him that she needed gas in her vehicle so she drove to a local convenient store.

Hutchinson police have made two arrests in an overnight kidnapping and aggravated battery case. The incident happened around 2-am Friday, at 3200 Garden Grove Parkway. Officers were told by a female victim that she had been forced into one of the apartments at gunpoint, then battered by the armed suspect. They eventually arrested 24 year old Kayla Salyer. She has been charged with aggravated battery, aggravated assault, aggravated kidnapping, two counts of criminal threat and felony interference with law enforcement.

A 20-year-old woman who police say was kidnapped at gunpoint this morning is back home safe, but police are still looking for the three people who took her. Police say the incident was over a lost cell phone. The woman was not hurt. Police are still investigating. ---------- Sedgwick County dispatchers say a 20-year-old woman may have been kidnapped at gunpoint.  Dispatchers tell us the woman was abducted by three people from a home in the 1300 block of S. Richmond.

by Kim Hynes (Wichita, KAN.) The man accused of kidnapping a Viola convenience store clerk is competent to stand trail.  Last month a judge ordered Robert Abner to a competency test.  In court Thursday, it was released that Comcare found Abner fit to stand trail. Abner will be back in court next week September 11th for a preliminary hearing. He's accused of kidnapping Joyce Patterson from the convenience store where she worked in June.  He held her captive for three days and then released her on the doorstep of her pastor.

Dodge City Police say a man they were looking for in connection with a possible abduction surrendered to police in California. In a news release, the Dodge City Police Chief says Ausberto Baez-Rivera surrendered to officers in Chowchilla, California, early Tuesday morning. It's the same place where his car was found Monday outside his mother's home. Officials say the suspect is being held on a warrant out of Ford County. No word on when he will be sent back to Kansas. ------ Dodge City Police are asking for the publics help in finding a man wanted in a kidnapping.

A mother wrapped her arms tight around her daughter after she was kidnapped and held against her will for more than half an hour. James Johnson's daughter and another girl managed to get away. "It was terrifying but I calmed her down," Johnson said. "As long as she's safe, we're going skating and going to try to get past this and I'm going to deal with the rest. " The girls were headed home from a gas station near Edgemoor and Harry when the suspect approached them. "They just got hungry and figured they'd walk to Quik Trip in a group and figured they would be safe," he said.

A young girl is still frightened after she was taken against her will Friday night. The 12-year-old girl was walking with two other girls in the 5000 block of E. Harry around 9 p.m. The girls were returning from a nearby convenience store, when the victim said two unknown men approached them. Two of the girls ran away and called for help. But the other girl was missing for 40 minutes. The girl said she managed to get away from her abductor when he turned around to talk to friends.

Hutchinson police have made two arrests in an overnight kidnapping and aggravated battery case. The incident happened around 2-am Friday, at 3200 Garden Grove Parkway. Officers were told by a female victim that she had been forced into one of the apartments at gunpoint, then battered by the armed suspect. They eventually arrested 24 year old Kayla Salyer. She has been charged with aggravated battery, aggravated assault, aggravated kidnapping, two counts of criminal threat and felony interference with law enforcement.

A Kansas man who is already in prison for abducting a store clerk in Viola has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison on a bank robbery charge.   Forty-two year old Robert D. Abner, pleaded guilty to the June 27, 2008, robbery of the Garden Plain State in Garden Plain, Kansas. During the robbery he brandished what appeared to be a firearm and demanded money before fleeing on foot. The weapon later was determined to be a pellet gun. Abner was arrested in Oregon in July 2008.

In front of the Isely Elementary School Friday afternoon, Wichita Police arrest a man suspected of capital murder. Police say they were following him for about a week for a possible parole violation. A relative of the suspect says he cut off his ankle monitoring bracelet. Police say they spotted the suspect walking down Grove street, then getting into a car, they pulled it over near the school and arrested the suspect. Along with capital murder the suspect is also charged with other crimes including aggravated kidnapping and aggravated robbery.

Police arrested a man in Arkansas City for kidnapping Thursday morning. Investigators say a woman and her friend were sitting outside her home when the suspect walked up to their vehicle saying he wanted to kill somebody. The suspect forced his way into the vehicle and told her to drive. The woman was fearful that he might do something to her children who were asleep inside the home so she did what he asked and drove. The woman was able to trick the suspect by telling him that she needed gas in her vehicle so she drove to a local convenient store.

Twenty-year-old Darrius Shugart has made his first appearance in court after what police are calling a Tuesday morning crime spree.  Shugart was charged with two counts of kidnapping, aggravated burglary, two counts of attempted aggravated robbery, aggravated assault, criminal discharge of a firearm, aggravated robbery, theft, criminal damage to property and criminal possession of a firearm. His preliminary hearing is set for October 13. ------------------- Previous Coverage Wichita police have released new information about the abduction of a Robinson Middle School Student Tuesday morning.

Dodge City Police say a man they were looking for in connection with a possible abduction surrendered to police in California. In a news release, the Dodge City Police Chief says Ausberto Baez-Rivera surrendered to officers in Chowchilla, California, early Tuesday morning. It's the same place where his car was found Monday outside his mother's home. Officials say the suspect is being held on a warrant out of Ford County. No word on when he will be sent back to Kansas. ------ Dodge City Police are asking for the publics help in finding a man wanted in a kidnapping.

He's already serving 139 years for kidnapping and raping a convenience store clerk in 2008, now Robert Abner faces bank robbery charges. A federal grand jury in Wichita indicted 42-year-old Robert Abner for the June 27th, 2008 robbery of the Garden Plain State Bank.   If convicted, he faces up to 25 years and a fine of up to $250,000. Abner is already in prison serving time for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman who worked at a Viola convenience store.  She was released three days later in southeast Wichita.

Salina police say a man tried to kidnap a 21-year-old woman as she delivered copies of The Salina Journal early Monday morning. Police tell our news partners at the Journal, the carrier was walking in the 900 block of Faith Drive when a car approached her. The driver offered her a ride but she refused. Click here to find out what happened next.