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Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update Breaking crime news Now, I'm Nicol Parton.

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Speaker 1: Two teenage girls reportedly escaped to potential kidnapping in Los

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Speaker 1: Angeles by jumping from a moving vehicle. The incident occurred

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Speaker 1: in the North Hills area, where the girls, ages twelve

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Speaker 1: and sixteen, were walking near North Hills Park at the

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Speaker 1: intersection of Columbus Avenue around five twenty pm. A man

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Speaker 1: in a car approached them and repeatedly offered them a ride,

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Speaker 1: according to police reports. Initially refusing, the girls eventually got

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Speaker 1: into the vehicle on the third attempt near Nordoff Street

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Speaker 1: and Columbus Avenue. Authorities stated that once inside, the man

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Speaker 1: locked the doors and drove off with the girls. Detective

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Speaker 1: Efron Gutierrez informed ABC seven that the suspect took the

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Speaker 1: girls to a cul de sac near Sunburst Street rather

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Speaker 1: than the location they had indicated. Once there, he allegedly

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Speaker 1: locked the doors and made inappropriate offers, including money, alcohol,

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Speaker 1: and drugs, while exposing himself and soliciting sexual favors in exchange.

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Speaker 2: Right off of Acre Street and Columbus They got into

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Speaker 2: his vehicle and proceeded eastbound. However, instead of going to

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Speaker 2: the location where the girls instructed him to. Suspect drove

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Speaker 2: to the area of Sunburst and Lamona as a residential neighborhood,

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Speaker 2: but secluded enough, not enough people or vehicle traffic around.

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Speaker 2: The suspect locked the car doors and then offered them money.

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Speaker 2: We offered them alcohol, drugs, and then he began to

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Speaker 2: unzip or unbutton his shorts where he asked for a

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Speaker 2: sexual favors in exchange for money. The girls were frightened,

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Speaker 2: they were able to jump out of the car. The

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Speaker 2: first girl jumped out while the car was stationary, and

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Speaker 2: the second girl jumped out of the car while it

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Speaker 2: was in motion, but neither girl was injured. The girls

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Speaker 2: were screaming for help, and eventually the suspect sped away.

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Speaker 1: Fortunately, both girls managed to escape the vehicle. One jumped

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Speaker 1: out while it was stopped and the other exited while

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Speaker 1: it was moving. Thankfully, neither sustained any physical injuries. According

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Speaker 1: to Ktlaight, a suspect is described as a twenty one

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Speaker 1: year old Hispanic mail, approximately two hundred pounds, with black hair,

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Speaker 1: brown eyes, and tattoos on both arms. He was last

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Speaker 1: seen driving an older four door Sedan with an unknown

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Speaker 1: license plate. The investigation remains ongoing. Or crime and Justice

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Speaker 1: News after this and now to Alabama sports related crime.

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Speaker 1: An Alabama Crimson Tide point guard Aiden Holloway was found

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Speaker 1: with more than two pounds of marijuana at his apartment

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Speaker 1: at the time of his arrest on Monday morning. According

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Speaker 1: to ESPN, the amount found is zero point one pounds,

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Speaker 1: less than the two point two pound limit that could

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Speaker 1: have resulted in a drug trafficking charge according to Alabama

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Speaker 1: state laws. Holloway reportedly told police quote he only smokes

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Speaker 1: and doesn't sell it when the large amount of marijuana

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Speaker 1: was found in his possession. Though, he was charged with

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Speaker 1: a Class C felony drug possession charge not for personal

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Speaker 1: use and a failure to a fix a tax stamp.

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Speaker 1: Both our felonies and carry a maximum sentence of ten

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Speaker 1: years in jail and a fifteen thousand dollars fine. Holloway

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Speaker 1: was quote reportedly removed from the campus and he is

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Speaker 1: absent from the team ahead of the NCAA men's basketball

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Speaker 1: March Madness tournament that's set to open on Friday. Alabama

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Speaker 1: head coach Nate Oates confirmed that the team was preparing

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Speaker 1: to play without Holloway in its opening round game. Holloway

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Speaker 1: was previously involved in a traffic stop conducted by University

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Speaker 1: of Alabama campus police. The spokesperson for the Tuscaloosa Police

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Speaker 1: Department confirmed the point guard was in fact stopped and

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Speaker 1: part of the drug scandal. The point guard averaged a

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Speaker 1: career best of sixteen points, three assists and two point

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Speaker 1: eight rebounds in twenty eight minutes per game during the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five season, ranking as the Tide's second leading

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Speaker 1: score Now, the team is forced to play without him

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Speaker 1: as he faces these felony charges. A Florida missing child

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Speaker 1: alert has been issued for Amir Baptiste. He was last

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Speaker 1: seen in the area of twelve thousand, six hundred block

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Speaker 1: of Victoria Circle in Orlando, Florida. He was last seen

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Speaker 1: wearing dark colored clothes, green pants, and white socks. According

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Speaker 1: to the police, little Emir Baptiste, just four years old,

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Speaker 1: was last seen on August five, twenty twenty four. At

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Speaker 1: the time of his disappearance, he was three feet tall

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Speaker 1: and weighed forty pounds. Amir is described as a black

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Speaker 1: male with black hair and brown eyes. Anyone with information

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Speaker 1: and is asked to call the Orange County Sheriff's Office.

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Speaker 1: At four zero seven eight three six four to three

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Speaker 1: five seven or call ninety one one and for the

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Speaker 1: Nicole Partner