Kidnapping, possible murder thwarted by alert police officer www.privateofficer.com

Kidnapping, possible murder thwarted by alert police officer http://www.privateofficer.com

DAYTON OH Aug 14 2008

By: Rick McCann

Ntl. Assoc. Private Officers

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Authorities say a keen eye of a lone officer on patrol on Redfern Avenue early Wednesday afternoon may have prevented a homicide when the officer spotted three men carrying a handcuffed man into a vacant house, where another man waited inside. In a basement room officers discovered a chair and a loaded gun.
Officer Michael Baker was patrolling the Five Oaks neighborhood about 12:15 p.m. Wednesday when he spotted the men. When the men saw Baker, they dropped their prisoner and ran, said Lt. John Huber.

Baker radioed for back up officers and they soon found a room set off in the basement of the house. In the room was a lone chair and a machine pistol with a bullet in the chamber.
A fourth suspect was spotted running from the house and officers gave chase by said that man got way even though Officer Charles Hurley shot him with a stun gun.
“Whatever was going to happen in there wasn’t going to be good,” Huber said.
He added that Baker probably saved the handcuffed man’s life.
The handcuffed man had minor head injuries and looked as if he had been pistol-whipped, Huber said.
Police are still investigating this incident and searching for the men who got away.

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