HENDERSON, Ky (WEHT) – A Tennessee man is being held in the Vanderburgh County Jail on kidnapping charges where he allegedly tried kidnapping a local teenager.
According to an affidavit, Evansville Police officers were advised of a kidnapping report on April 18. Dispatch advised that a 17-year-old had been taken to Hendersonville, TN against her will by Demond Campbell, 27.
The affidavit says the juvenile was led to believe that she was going to Henderson, KY with Campbell to go to a dentist appointment. According to a run card, Campbell purposefully wrecked his vehicle with the juvenile in it while he was intoxicated.
Officers called the juvenile’s foster parents who they said their daughter and Campbell are friends. Officers were advised that the juvenile was allowed to go with Campbell under the pretense that they were going to stay in Evansville, and she would be home by 2 p.m.
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The affidavit says when 2 p.m. came, the juvenile was not home, and she said she did not know where she was but thought she was possibly in Tennessee because of all the license plates.