- Victor Manuel Montilla, 44, faces a kidnapping charge for allegedly abducting a 15-year-old girl.
- The teen jumped from Montilla’s moving vehicle to escape on Feb. 7, police say.
- Montilla canceled the Lyft ride, falsely claiming the girl’s mother had canceled it, according to charges.
WEST JORDAN — A rideshare driver was charged Wednesday with kidnapping a teenage girl who police say was forced to jump from his moving vehicle to escape.
Victor Manuel Montilla, 44, of South Jordan, is charged in 3rd District Court with kidnapping, a second-degree felony.
A woman arranged for a Lyft driver to pick up her 15-year-old daughter on Feb. 7 and take her from West Jordan to an appointment in Salt Lake City. Montilla picked up the teen but turned the wrong way out of the complex and pulled over, “stating he was having connection issues,” according to a police booking affidavit…