York Investigating Abduction from Daycare Parking Lot

By WYDaily Staff Tuesday, March 15, 2011

York County sheriff's investigators are looking for a man who abducted a mother and her two young children early today while the woman was dropping off her children at a daycare center.

York-Poquoson Sheriff's spokesman Sgt. Dennis Ivey, Jr. said the suspect approached the woman around 6:50 a.m. in the A-Plus Day Care parking lot in the 3500 block of Route 17 as she lifted her infant out of the car. He displayed a dark-colored handgun and ordered the woman back into the car with her baby, then told her to drive to an ATM near the Tabb Walmart down the road from the daycare center.

After forcing the woman to remove cash from her account at the ATM, the suspect ordered her to drive to the York County Sports Complex, just north of the Walmart and off Route 17.

Once there, the suspect told the woman and her children to get out of the car. They did, and he drove off in the woman's car. The woman and her children were unharmed, Ivey said.

The vehicle, a 2002 silver Honda Accord with Virginia license plate KNV-8568, was recovered a few hours after the abduction on Crandol Drive, off Route 17 and behind the daycare center where the incident began.

The woman was able to give police a limited description; she said the suspect was male and possibly wearing a dark-colored "hoodie"-type sweatshirt.

Anyone who may have seen a man wearing a dark-colored hoodie walking in the area of Route 17 near the daycare, which is across the street from the Harwoods Mill Reservoir, should call the Crime Line at 1-888-LOCK-U-UP.