Kidnapping and assault case plays out across Orange County. Suspect arrested, victim found safe

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A 42-year-old man was arrested Sunday following a kidnapping and assault incident that played out across several Orange County cities, according to the Fullerton Police Department.Police were first alerted to the case at around 4:09 a.m., when they responded to the area of South Acacia Avenue and Dawns Way in Fullerton after receiving a 911 call from a woman reporting that a man she knew was attacking her and another man she was with, according to police.During the call, dispatchers heard sounds of a struggle before the line disconnected, the department said.Officers arrived within minutes and met a man at the location who said he had been assaulted by another man, later identified by police as Charles Hernandez.Police said Hernandez then forcibly took the woman into his vehicle and fled.Investigators said the incident began earlier in Anaheim, where the man and woman were sitting in a parked vehicle when Hernandez approached and began hitting the car.

The woman asked the man in the car to drive away and head toward the police department.California A Santa Monica man has been charged with the rape of a woman near Culver City in October and the kidnapping of a female UCLA student in March, authorities said.As they drove, Hernandez followed and intentionally struck their vehicle, police said.

The driver turned onto a residential cul-de-sac, where Hernandez rammed the vehicle again, police said.The two men then got out their cars, and Hernandez demanded the other man’s wallet and threatened to kill him with a firearm, according to authorities.

The other man armed himself with a hammer in self-defense, police said.Police said Hernandez then swung a metal sign at the driver before turning to the woman, taking her phone and forcing her into his vehicle.About an hour later, an officer located Hernandez’s car on the 57 Freeway near Ball Road in Anaheim.

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