Bystanders thwart kidnapping
PORTLAND (AP) — Two bystanders who
thought something was wrong when they sow .1
10-venr-old girl walk away with a man who hod
flashed what looked like a badge are credited with
thwarting the child's kidnapping.
"Our worst gut fears were realized," Ken Gillam.
who had watched the incident unfold about 5 p.m
Sunday when ho and a co-worker were stopped at
a traffic signal
Gillam telephoned police from his van and told
them he had seen a man lend a young girl to a car
Police stopped the car a short time later.
The girl, who w-as not identified by police, was
crying and said she didn’t know the man. The dri
ver, Anthony Paul Griffin, 35, of Salem, was
charged with kidnapping and impersonating a
police officer. Hail was set at $52,5(H).
When bo was captured, Griffin was carrying a
44-caliber Magnum pistol in a shoulder holster,
police spokesman Henry Groepper said.
Griffin also was carrying a hand-held scanner
that was set to Portland police frequencies, Groep
per said. He had a silver badge inscribed "Police
Officer Metropolitan Police” and a forged Portland
police sergeant's identification that boro the name
Brian R. Glnrk and bad Griffin's photograph.
Groepper said the man had approached the girl
on a sidewalk, told her he was a policeman,
showed her a badge and said thev needed to leave
the area.
Gillam and his < o-worker, who did not wish to
he identified for fear the suspect would retaliate,
saw the man approach the girl ami show her what
looked like a bodge
The man then pulled some sort of radio from his
jacket.
"It didn't look like the kind of radio the police
would carry.-' Gillam said.
When the light changed. Gillam and co-worker
followed the man and girl to a car
"When I saw' him in a car with her and sow that
the car looked really scuzzy. I dei ided to call
police,” Gillam said
“Our gut feeling, between the two of us. was that
something wasn't being done right here." he said
Gillam used his speaker phone in his van to call
911 so the susfMs.t wouldn't get suspicious. He fol
lowed the car out of a parking lot and gave the
police dispatcher directions and descriptions as
they went.
Gillam said he doesn't feel like a hero
"I feel like we followed our gut feeling." he said
"We just happened to he at the right time, at the
right place."
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