Child Abduction Digest 8-20-12

Los Angeles, CA
Sheriff's detectives are searching for a suspect in the attempted kidnapping of two teenage girls in the San Gabriel Valley.

The suspect in both cases is a man in his 20s or 30s who allegedly attempted to grab the girls as he drove near them in a white two-door pickup truck.

The attempted kidnappings occurred within three weeks of each other in unincorporated residential neighborhoods near Azusa, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said. The first alleged kidnapping occurred July 28, a Saturday, at 2:20 p.m. when a man pulled up next to a 16-year-old girl walking in a residential neighborhood with two teenage friends, near Orkney Street  and Fenimore Avenue, less than 2,000 feet from Center Middle School.

He then "reached out from his truck with his left arm and wrapped his arm around the victim’s buttocks area and pulled the victim towards him, authorities said.

Monterrey, CA
A 19-year-old man accused of fleeing with his underaged girlfriend without her parents’ consent has been charged with child abduction, the Monterey County District Attorney’s Office said.
Juan Manuel Salazar Jr. pleaded not guilty to the child abduction charge Thursday, the District Attorney’s Office said.


Salazar Jr. of Paso Robles was initially booked into county jail after he and his girlfriend, Eunice Serrato, 16, turned themselves over to agents at the U.S.-Mexico border on Aug. 4, a week after an Amber Alert was issued for the girl.


The two were sought by law enforcement after Hector Reyes, 22, and Daniel Fraga, 25, were found shot dead July 28 in the bathroom of the San Ardo home of Serrato’s parents.