THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, June 3, 1994 TAG: 9406030713
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: D3 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY STEVE STONE, STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: 940603 LENGTH: Medium
Haywood William Johnson Jr., 24, who also used the name William J. Haywood Jr., and Clarence Swinton, 31, of the first block of Wilson Parkway, were being held in the Suffolk jail Thursday night on charges stemming from a carjacking in that city. They were arrested in Portsmouth after the stolen car was spotted by police and stopped on Airline Boulevard.
{REST} ``During the course of the follow-up investigation into the Suffolk carjacking, evidence was recovered linking the individuals to the incident that occurred on May 31,'' said G.A. Brown, a Portsmouth police spokesman.
Warrants charging Johnson and Swinton with robbery, malicious wounding, abduction and carjacking will be served today, Brown said.
The woman in Portsmouth was on her way to her own birthday party Tuesday night when, shortly after 8 p.m., she was abducted by a man who held her at knifepoint as he drove through the Park View area.
Initially, he bound her hands and threatened to rape her. Then he promised to let her go unharmed. In the end, he took her to a wooded area on a dead-end street in West Park View, where he slit her throat.
The woman, who has asked that she not be identified, escaped and got help at a house nearby. Her wounds required more than 150 stitches.
``There is no doubt about it,'' she said at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital. ``He wasn't going to let me out alive.''
Johnson's last known address was in the 400 block of DeKalb Ave. in the Fairwood Homes section of Portsmouth. The woman's car, a 1989 Ford Escort, was recovered in that neighborhood Thursday night.
Details about the Suffolk carjacking were unclear, but the victim was able to give police a good description of his assailants.
{KEYWORDS} ASSAULT INJURIES KIDNAPPING ARREST
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