HENDRICKS COUNTY, Ind. — A man was arrested on preliminary charges including kidnapping, strangulation and burglary after an incident at a Hendricks County subdivision Wednesday morning.
The incident happened around 10:30 a.m. Oct. 11 on Pollard Park, near East County Road 600 North and Raceway Road, just west of the Hendricks/Marion county line.
According to the sheriff's office, witnesses said they saw a male and female fighting in the road before the male forced the female into a white Chevrolet Cruze.
The vehicle left the subdivision with the woman inside.
"At some point after exiting the neighborhood onto Raceway Road, (the woman) was able to free her hands, which (the man) was restraining, disable the vehicle by forcing it into the Park position, distracting (the man) and successfully exiting the vehicle to run for help," the sheriff's office said in a statement.
A passing driver took the woman to a gas station nearby, and the man fled the scene on Raceway Road, police said. Officers from multiple departments searched for the car but were not able to locate it.
The woman told police the man had attacked her earlier at a home in the subdivision, strangling her and taking her phone.
The man was later located in Indianapolis and taken into custody, police said. He faces preliminary charges of felony kidnapping, felony criminal confinement, felony burglary, felony strangulations, felony theft and multiple misdemeanors.
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Anyone with information on the incident is asked to contact the Hendricks County Sheriff's Office investigations division at 317-745-9354.
