Missing Woman Seen on Ring Camera Screaming for Help as She's Abducted | Crime Alert 1PM 10.14.25

Police in Wichita release a video showing a woman screaming as she is dragged away in an early morning kidnapping. A fugitive accused of raping an 8-year-old girl is back in custody after a five-day manhunt in the mountains of southern Colorado. An inflatable pumpkin leads police on a slow, windy chase through Parma Heights, Ohio. Drew Nelson reports.

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Crime Alert hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Drew Nilson.
Police in Wichita release a video showing a woman screaming
as she is dragged away in an early morning kidnapping.
Investigators say the abduction happened around two am Sunday in
the fourteen hundred block of North Felucca. The short video,
captured by a doorbell camera, shows the woman shouting for

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help before a man pulls her down the driveway and
out of view. Yeah Wichita Police posted the footage on
social media and asked for the public's help identifying both
people in the video. The department stated quote, at this time,
we have not been able to identify the female and

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male seen in the video. Exploring all options, We've reached
out to our regional and federal law enforcement partners for
additional assistance. Officers spent the day enhancing the videos audio,
hoping that someone might recognize the woman's voice. The case
has drawn national attention, with the FBI and Kansas Bureau
of Investigation now helping this search. Neighbors say they are

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frightened on helico Verdutsko told Kake she has lived in
the area for fifteen years and has never seen anything
like this. La la sembre croczembra vido sequestre in English
quote It's dangerous, that's the truth. But always I believe
there have always been kidnappings. Perdutsko said she just returned

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from visiting family in Mexico, where kidnappings are common, and
now feels uneasy for herself and the young woman in
the neighborhood. Police urge anyone who recognizes either person to
call nine to one one or call Wichita Police Investigations
at three one, six, two six eight forty four h
seven more crime and justice news after this. A fugitive

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accused of raping an eight year old girl is back
in custody after a five day manhunt in the mountains
of northern Colorado. Paul Sandoval, at aged sixty two, was
arrested Sunday morning near Lake Como Road on Blanca Peak.
The US Marshall Service said he had been hiding in
the rugged area four years. More than seventy officers from federal, state,
and local agencies joined the search. Sandoval was wanted for felony,

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sexual assault of a child, false imprisonment, and child abuse.
Investigators said that on March fifteenth, of twenty twenty one,
he tied up an eight year old girl with rope
and raped her inside a shed on his property. When
he learned about the warrant for his arrest, he fled
into the mountains. Deputy said. Sandival returned to Alamosa County
in August and was caught on surveillance cameras after allegedly

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breaking into a home and vehicle. He was confirmed to
be armed with a rifle. Blanca Peak rises more than
fourteen thousand feet above sea level. Authorities said the mountain
terrain and cold conditions made the search difficult. After days
of tracking, officers found Sandoval and took him into custody
at exactly ten twenty two am Sunday. He was booked
into the Alamosa County Jail. An inflatable pumpkin leads police

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on a slow, windy chase through Parma Heights, Ohio. Body
camera videos shows officers chasing the bright orange blob as
it rolled down the street. The footage shows one officer
trying to grab the thing while laughing with a colleague,
from where did that go from? Dude? I was kind
of like following it, and it kept blowing away, and
when I went to grab it over here. Huh took golf.

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The pumpkin was taller than the officers and pretty hard
to stop. They struggled to hold it down as it
continued to bounce away. One officer radioed that they were
quote currently struggling with it right now. It's not cooperating
that much, you think. After a few failed attempts to
deflate the runaway gord, the officers worked together to stuff
it into the back of the police car, one officer

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saying as they squeezed the thing inside, quote, I've never
seen that before, police said. The pumpkin was safely returned
to its home. Later that night, the department posted on Facebook,
just another example of our officers going above and beyond,
even for seasonal decorps. Nearby departments joined in with jokes,
including Bedford police commenting quote some departments would have squashed

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this story. Glad to see you guys rolled it out.
Gerald C. Dunning is wanted for fleeing prosecution after being
charged with lewde and lascivious acts on a child in Florida.
Investigator say Dunning, now sixty five, was accused of sexual
activity with a child under sixteen in Saint Petersburg between
nineteen ninety six and ninety eight. He was arrested on

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this day in nineteen ninety eight and released on bond.
His trial was set for June twenty ninth of nineteen
ninety nine, but he failed to appear. The Pinellas County
Circuit Court issued a warrant that same day. A federal
warrant followed from the U. S. District Court in the
Middle District of Florida after Dunning was charged with unlawful
flight to avoid prosecution. The FBI says Dunning may have

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fled to Brazil, and he has known ties in Florida
and Tennessee. He once worked as a ship and boat
builder and is skilled with fiberglass. Dunning is described as white,
about five seven one seventy, brown hair, and brown eyes.
Has a scar above his left eye. He's known for
enjoying outdoor activities like camping, fishing, skiing, and four wheeling.

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He's believed to own several guns for recreation and is
not known to be violent. Anyone with information about his
whereabouts is asked to contact the FBI at eight hundred
call FBI or tips dot FBI dot gov for the
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Drew Nelson