Man charged with kidnapping 3 Ohio children, driving them to Beach Park

BEACH PARK, Sick. (CBS) – A person is going through kidnapping fees after driving three minors from Ohio to Seaside Park over the weekend.

Michael Negron, 19, is charged with one depend of kidnapping and three counts of kid endangerment.

Lake County Sheriff’s deputies positioned Negron together with the lacking Juveniles – two women, 12 and 14, and a boy, 15, at a gasoline station within the space of Lewis Avenue and Wadsworth Highway.

Round 12:30 p.m. Saturday, The Lake County Sheriff’s Workplace obtained a name from a father or mother of one of many lacking juveniles who tracked one of many telephones to the 10600 block of West Yorkhouse Highway in Seaside Park.

Lake County officers discovered Negron was driving a Ford Mustang and left Middleton with the youngsters round 10:30 p.m. Friday night time. 

Negron was arrested on the gasoline station and transported to the Lake County Sheriff’s Workplace Prison Investigations Division. 

The juveniles had been all taken to security on the Lake County Youngsters’s Advocacy Heart.

Additional investigation revealed Negron was speaking with the 12-year-old woman for a number of weeks on Fortnite, Snapchat, and different social media platforms. 

Negron drove the Middleton, Ohio space on Wednesday and stayed at a lodge. It’s believed he interacted with the three juveniles a number of occasions throughout his keep. 

One of many kids texted their father or mother an outline of the automobile they had been in, which helped the sheriff’s workplace seek for and find Negron and the juveniles.

Officers say it’s unclear what precisely Negron’s intentions had been with the youngsters. 

Sheriff John D. Idleburg mentioned, “It’s an unlucky actuality, however there are predators amongst us who prey on kids. Many of those predators use social media functions to initially meet a toddler and construct belief with them. After that belief is constructed, they persuade the kid to fulfill. It’s extremely vital to take a look at your kids’s electronics to see what functions they’re utilizing, who they’re speaking with, and what they’re saying.”

Negron stays held within the Lake County Jail pending an preliminary courtroom listening to Sunday. Further fees are doable.