Sketch Released Of North Lauderdale Kidnapper
NORTH LAUDERDALE (CBS4) – The search is on for a man who bound a woman in duct tape during a kidnapping attempt in North Lauderdale.
It happened Saturday night, just after 10:30 p.m., in the 7200 block of W McNab Road.
Twenty-nine year old Judith Moncion of Lauderhill had left a beauty supply store and was about to drive away in her car when a man opened the driver's side door, pointed a gun at her and told her to be quiet.
"I seen the gun and I started screaming," said Moncion. "Thats when he pinned me to the car and held my mouth."
When Moncion began to scream, she said the man wrapped duct tape around her head over her nose and mouth and around her hands.
"The duct tape started coming around and I'm looking at him like this man is just duct taping me, duct taping me. Now he's duct taping my nose and I'm telling him I couldn't breathe," she recalled.
Thats when she said he threw her in the back seat, got into the driver's seat and began to drive away.
Moncion said she thought she would not live to tell her story. "My kids, my family members, they don't know where I'm at," she said. "They don't know whats going on right now I'm gone. I'm dead. It's over."
A witness who saw what happened immediately called 911. Before the man could even drive out of the parking lot the sheriff's deputies had arrived. The alleged kidnapper actually tried talking to the officers.
"He's telling the officer, he went that way, he went that way," remembered Moncion. "While the officer was driving by I popped my head up and the bright lights was on me and he seen the bright lights."
When the deputy tried to pull the car over, the man bailed out and took off on foot. He jumped over a wall and ran into the Player's Place Community about a block away. Officers were unable to find him.
Moncion was able to jump into the front seat and hit the brakes before the car hit a Taco Bell.
Investigators said they aren't sure what the man's intentions were. Moncion provided a detailed description of the man and the sheriff's office released a sketch of what he looks like.
Moncion said the man was about 5-foot-5 and weighed between 105 and 120-pounds with a thin, muscular build. He spoke English, was clean cut and wearing plaid shorts and a white tank top.
Anyone with information on the man is asked to call Broward Crime Stoppers at (954) 493-TIPS.
