Vancouver police officers arrested a man Sunday suspected in a robbery and kidnapping connected to the alleged abduction of a 4-year-old girl by her mother last week.
Police arrested Erick Garcia-Valdovinos, 18, on suspicion of two counts of first-degree kidnapping and one count of first-degree robbery for his involvement in a man’s abduction, where he was tied to a chair and his car taken, and the taking of a girl in foster care by her mother.
According to the police, a passerby located Jose Orellana-Gomez in the Bagley Downs neighborhood, Thursday. Orellana-Gomez told police an acquaintance, Esmeralda Lopez-Lopez, invited him to her apartment on the premise she needed help with a ride to Centralia.
The police said Orellana-Gomez arrived to meet three unfamiliar men, who bound him to a chair. They told him they were taking his car, and demanded his credit card and PIN.
