Two Georgia males have been arrested about one month after allegedly kidnapping a girl at a fuel station.
The DeKalb County Sheriff's Workplace introduced Wednesday that Atlanta resident Quentin Williams, 21, and Rodrequicge Allen, 19, of Covington, have been each arrested and charged with the felony crime of kidnapping.
Inmate data confirmed that Allen was additionally charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon or first offender probationer.
It's alleged that Allen and Williams "made advances" to the feminine sufferer, Monqua Johnson, "in opposition to her will" when she was at an Exxon fuel station March 20 on Glenwood Highway in Decatur.
"When she declined, the suspects allegedly kidnapped her and put her into the trunk of a automotive, releasing her in a while Wesley Chapel Highway," police mentioned.
Each suspects have been apprehended Wednesday by the DeKalb County Sheriff's Workplace Fugitive Unit, which labored with U.S. Marshals and the DeKalb Police Division Gangs Unit, in Ellenwood and brought into custody with out incident. They have been taken to the DeKalb County Jail, the place they're presently being held with out bond.
An arrest warrant for each suspects was obtained by Newsweek and said that the suspects allegedly entered the Exxon station and went to a recreation room within the again. Williams and Allen allegedly "forcefully eliminated the sufferer by pulling her hair and forcing her into the car."
"The sufferer was solely in a position to persuade the males to let her depart the automotive after saying that her cousin was following the automotive," the warrant continued. That was reportedly when she was let loose on the facet of Wesley Chapel Highway.
Williams and Allen have been each ID'd on fuel station surveillance video, with Williams additionally recognized resulting from his garments matching pictures on social media.
In December 2021 the FBIlaunched information on roughly 8.9 million prison offenses reported through the Nationwide Incident-Primarily based Reporting System (NIBRS) in 2020. The 2020 report, issued by the Uniform Crime Reporting Program, confirmed varied information about 23 offense classes, together with 10 extra classes for which solely arrest information is collected.
The NIBRS report confirmed that 27,982 incidents in 2020 associated to kidnapping or abductions, together with 31,216 offenses and victims. There have been 31,672 complete identified offenders.
Information for that calendar yr was supplied by a complete of 9,880 legislation enforcement businesses with jurisdictions overlaying greater than 177.5 million U.S. residents, accounting for about 62.1 p.c of the 15,901 legislation enforcement businesses that submitted information to this system.
The FBI reported that of the 8.87 million offenses reported in 7.56 million incidents, 60.5 p.c have been crimes in opposition to property; 25.2 p.c have been crimes in opposition to individuals, and 14.3 p.c have been crimes in opposition to society.
A couple of quarter of victims have been reported to haven't any relationship to their offenders.
Youngsters are sometimes the goal of kidnappings or abductions. The Nationwide Heart for Lacking & Exploited Youngsters (NCMEC) assisted legislation enforcement, households and little one welfare with 27,733 instances of lacking youngsters in 2021. "Endangered runaways" compose the very best variety of lacking youngsters reported to the NCMEC, described as youngsters that "are extremely susceptible and face many dangers together with homelessness, gang involvement and little one intercourse trafficking."
The age of the sufferer within the arrest of Williams and Allen was not supplied by authorities.
Newsweek reached out to DeKalb County public security personnel for remark.
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