ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times
DATE: Wednesday, July 24, 1996 TAG: 9607240033
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-3 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
DATELINE: FAIRLAWN
SOURCE: LISA K. GARCIA STAFF WRITER
Police are looking for a man who escaped early Monday after he carjacked a 19-year-old woman, stole her car, and wrecked it when Dublin police chased him.
Capt. Mike Alderman, of the Pulaski County Sheriff's Office, said the woman reported the carjacking as follows: She was stopped at the intersection of Belspring and Peppers Ferry roads about 12:20 a.m. Monday when a man approached the car and asked for a ride.
She refused, but he got in the car on the passenger side, grabbed her neck and demanded that she drive.
The woman drove until the man asked for money. She told him she did not have any money, but said she could get some at home. She drove the man to a residence.
The woman got out of the car and tried to enter the house but her abductor noticed a light on inside and dragged her back into the car. He put her in the passenger seat and then crawled over her to get to the driver's side.
The man drove the woman around until he stopped, again, at the intersection of Belspring and Peppers Ferry roads where she escaped. The man drove away with the car and later wrecked it when a Dublin officer attempted to pull him over for reckless driving.
The man ran away after he drove the car into a fire hydrant on Third Street in Dublin, Alderman said.
Alderman said the woman called 911 from a friend's house about 20 minutes after the incident began. She was not injured, he said, and there was no weapon used during the attack.
Anyone with information about the incident should call the Sheriff's Office at 980-7800.
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