Feds charge San Diego man in weeklong abduction of Oklahoma teen

Prosecutors on Friday charged a North Park man with kidnapping a 16-year-old Oklahoma woman earlier this month, alleging that he assaulted and threatened to kill the teenager throughout per week spent on the highway and at his North Park residence.

Ramsey Manuel Cervantes, 22, was arraigned Friday in U.S. District Courtroom in San Diego on a federal kidnapping cost, which carries a most penalty of 20 years to life in jail.

In keeping with the FBI and federal prosecutors, Cervantes had a earlier relationship with the sufferer, whom he had met on-line. However when he traveled to see her on June 15 in Oklahoma, he allegedly kidnapped her and commenced driving again to San Diego, at one level putting a knife to her aspect and threatening to kill her.

Authorities rescued the woman and arrested Cervantes on June 22 after she referred to as police on his cellphone, which he had forgotten at residence when, fearing that he’d impregnated the sufferer, he left to purchase Plan B capsules at a retailer.

It was not instantly clear if Cervantes had an lawyer. Prosecutors stated he’s set for a detention listening to subsequent week.

FBI Particular Agent Daniel Evans wrote in a legal criticism that Cervantes met the sufferer a number of months in the past on a social media app and lied about his age, telling her he was 17 years outdated. After chatting on-line, Cervantes drove to fulfill the sufferer on 4 completely different events over roughly six months.

Throughout these visits, Cervantes “had consensual and non-consensual intercourse” with the sufferer, who finally broke up with Cervantes as a result of he was “bodily and sexually abusive,” Evans wrote. The pair reconnected about two months later, and Cervantes drove to Oklahoma to debate their relationship.

As soon as the sufferer was in Cervantes’ automobile, he informed her they had been going again to San Diego and prevented her from getting out, Evans wrote within the criticism. Cervantes allegedly pressed the knife to the woman’s aspect and threatened to kill her, used duct tape to restrain her and compelled her to drink vodka to maintain her “in a relentless state of heavy intoxication.”

As soon as again at his North Park residence on Sunday, Cervantes stored the sufferer shut away in his bed room to cover her from his roommate, in keeping with the criticism. He duct-taped a child pacifier into her mouth to maintain her quiet and performed loud music to obscure her presence.

All through the ordeal, Cervantes repeatedly assaulted the woman and compelled her to observe recordings of the assaults, in addition to little one pornography and violent movies depicting animal abuse, Evans wrote.

After the woman referred to as authorities, San Diego cops and FBI brokers responded to the residence and freed her, then arrested Cervantes at a close-by location.