Aggravated Kidnapping
A couple of years ago while I was working patrol at another agency I was a Field Training Officer and had a rookie riding with me. We were dispatched to a call inside one of the small towns in the county. It seemed the small town officer had stopped a car driving down the road with the back passenger door open and a guys legs hanging out the door. Someone had called 9-1-1 thinking that was a little strange. It’s probably a good thing that person called.
We arrived on scene and began to talk to the officer from the other agency. He had a guy in handcuffs in his backseat. He was under arrest for traffic warrants. The guy in his backseat had been the one whose legs had been hanging out the open door.
We talked to this guy and he told us the guys in the car were his father-in-law, brother-in-law and a friend of theirs. They showed up at his trailer and assaulted him then drug him to the car and were driving somewhere to assault him some more. In fact they told him they were going to kill him. He seemed genuinely afraid.
We then spoke with the driver of the car. He told us that they had gone to the house because the guy had assaulted his daughter and they were tired of it. He said they were going to run him off and that’s why they had drug him into the car and were driving off with him. When my rookie heard that he blurted out “you can’t do that, that’s kidnapping.” He was right. We then placed the three people in the car under arrest for aggravated kidnapping. The driver asked what that meant. I told him it was a first-degree felony and there was only one crime more serious than that in Texas, Capital Murder. I should not have told him that, he immediately started to have chest pain so we had to call an ambulance for him.
In the end we arrested the three guys in the car for aggravated kidnapping, and the officer from the other agency arrested the complainant for his warrants. I have no problem arresting a complainant on a call, but thought it was kind of harsh to arrest him under the circumstances of the call. If we had not shown up I think the other officer would have released the bad guys and just arrested the complainant, which would have been really messed up.
We arrived on scene and began to talk to the officer from the other agency. He had a guy in handcuffs in his backseat. He was under arrest for traffic warrants. The guy in his backseat had been the one whose legs had been hanging out the open door.
We talked to this guy and he told us the guys in the car were his father-in-law, brother-in-law and a friend of theirs. They showed up at his trailer and assaulted him then drug him to the car and were driving somewhere to assault him some more. In fact they told him they were going to kill him. He seemed genuinely afraid.
We then spoke with the driver of the car. He told us that they had gone to the house because the guy had assaulted his daughter and they were tired of it. He said they were going to run him off and that’s why they had drug him into the car and were driving off with him. When my rookie heard that he blurted out “you can’t do that, that’s kidnapping.” He was right. We then placed the three people in the car under arrest for aggravated kidnapping. The driver asked what that meant. I told him it was a first-degree felony and there was only one crime more serious than that in Texas, Capital Murder. I should not have told him that, he immediately started to have chest pain so we had to call an ambulance for him.
In the end we arrested the three guys in the car for aggravated kidnapping, and the officer from the other agency arrested the complainant for his warrants. I have no problem arresting a complainant on a call, but thought it was kind of harsh to arrest him under the circumstances of the call. If we had not shown up I think the other officer would have released the bad guys and just arrested the complainant, which would have been really messed up.
posted by TexasCop at 03:39
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