May 23, 2022- 10:53 a.m.
Virginia – James M. Hunter II, 31, was arrested a kidnapping suspect after tracking the victim’s phone as they drove through Hocking County. Law enforcement officers were able to stop and get the suspect into jail.
According to a post on the Hocking County Sheriff’s Office, on May 20, detectives with the Norfolk Virginia Police Department notified deputies of the location of a potential kidnapping victim who had been abducted from their city. Â
Deputies say an investigation revealed the suspect had abducted the victim from the driveway of her home and used zip ties to restrain her.
Hunter has been charged with kidnapping with additional charges likely to come at a later date. Â
Norfolk detectives said the victim called her family to tell them she had been abducted by a man whom she had a protection order against and was the estranged father of her child. Â
The victim was transported safely back to Virginia.
After tracking the victim’s phone, investigators pinged her location in Laurelville, traveling towards Logan.
