FAIRMONT, W.Va. — A Texas man who allegedly abducted a juvenile girl from Kentucky remains jailed in West Virginia after his weekend arrest in Marion County.
Marion County 911 dispatchers said they received two emergency calls from the same phone overnight Saturday from the BFS store in Kingmont but had trouble understanding the caller, who was speaking in Spanish. Operators called the station and got a description of the vehicle and forwarded the information to deputies.
Deputies a short time later pulled over a vehicle being driven by Jhoan Requena-Carrion, 30, and confirmed through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services the juvenile girl in his vehicle was a reported runaway or missing person from Lexington, Kentucky.
During the traffic stop, deputies learned the father of the child reported her missing earlier that day.
Requena-Carrion told deputies the mother of the child asked him to drive her to Philadelphia, but the father disputed and said he was not aware of any plan and his daughter never agreed to go with him.
Requena-Carrion. who authorities said lists a Texas address, is is being held in the North Central Regional Jail without bond by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.