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." SCHEDULES Continued from Page 1 sparing with the books. If between 20,000 and 22,000 books are sold, the new cost should generate between $5,000 and $5,500, which will go to the office. "This is not intended to bo a money-making scam. It's |ust to recoup the costs." Chereck said. Other changes are planned for Duck Call beginning in the fall. Students will be able to regis ter lor multiple terms starting fall term. 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