Woman Says She Was Nearly Kidnapped While Jogging
KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. -- The victim of an attempted kidnapping while jogging spoke out Wednesday night.
"I was yelling and saying, 'No, please. I have my baby. I have my baby," she said.
The victim, who did not want to be identified, is a mother of four.
She was jogging on the Rickenbacker Causeway on Key Biscayne, a daily routine, when she said four men drove up in a sport utility vehicle and tried to kidnap her.
"She first tried to ignore them," Detective Delrish Moss with Miami police said. "But then they were a little bit more aggressive and they repeated the demand for her to get in."
A Miami-Dade County police officer in the area saw what was going on.
"At that moment, I kneeled down," the victim said. "I saw them run to their car and I told the officer, 'Thank you, sir. You were sent from Heaven.'"
"If it wasn't for that Miami-Dade police officer, she could be somewhere dead right now," Moss said.
Police found and arrested the four men: Nelsin Escobar, Jose Manuel Nunez, Albert Alvarez and Allan Soriano-Lopez.
Police said they found rope and duct tape in their SUV.
The first three arrested suspects face attempted armed kidnapping charges. They are being held for immigration.
Soriano-Lopez, 19, is being held for criminal deportation. However, police said they suspect he was also in the car.
Police said they were most concerned about scratches found on Escobar's face.
"These scratches are consistent with a victim, someone struggling with him," Moss said. "That's probably a victim that's out there that we don't know exists, we don't know where she is and we don't know what's happened to her."
The jogging victim said she hopes her story saves other women.
"Perhaps this is why I was saved," she said. "To talk about this. I think everyone should talk, because there could be other victims."
Anyone who believes they have been victimized by the suspects should call Miami-Dade County CrimeStoppers at 305-471-TIPS.
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I hear three of these illegal aliens are out on BOND?
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