A law enforcement chase of a kidnapping suspect ended peacefully in downtown Los Gatos Sunday evening.
Sgt. Russell Davis of the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office said deputies were assisted by a San Jose Police Department helicopter.
“We wanted to make sure we had eyes in the sky,” the public information officer said around 8pm. “Right now we have one male suspect in custody.”
At 4:54pm, the Sheriff’s Office received a report of a domestic dispute in southern Santa Clara County.
(Courtesy of Daniel Roberts)
“We determined that a female was kidnapped by a male,” Davis said, noting they connected the incident to a specific vehicle. “Deputies attempted to stop that vehicle…The vehicle took off at a high rate of speed.”
Law enforcement tracked the vehicle as it wound its way between highways and surface streets.
“At one point the victim was able to get out of the vehicle,” Davis said, adding this occurred in the Camden area of San Jose. “She did escape.”
At 6:34pm, deputies arrested a young man at North Santa Cruz Avenue and Los Gatos-Saratoga Road.
A man has been charged with felony kidnapping, felony evading law enforcement, violating probation, violating a restraining order, false imprisonment and domestic battery.
