Dow Village man escapes after being abducted from his home

A Dow Vil­lage man man­aged to es­cape his ab­duc­tors hours af­ter two men forced their way in­to his home on Sat­ur­day night.

Po­lice said the in­ci­dent hap­pened around 8 p.m. at Main Street, Dow Vil­lage, Cal­i­for­nia. A wit­ness, who was asleep in an up­stairs bed­room of the two-storey house, re­port­ed be­ing awak­ened by two men who kicked open the front door. One was armed with a long met­al pipe. They went to an ad­ja­cent bed­room, grabbed the vic­tim, 25-year-old Luke Ram­per­sad, dragged him out­side and forced him in­to a wait­ing ve­hi­cle, which then sped north along Sev­enth Street.

Of­fi­cers in­ter­viewed the wit­ness, record­ed a re­port, took a state­ment and vis­it­ed the scene. They can­vassed the area and in­ter­viewed sev­er­al peo­ple. The An­ti-Kid­nap­ping Unit and Cen­tral Crime Scene In­ves­ti­ga­tors were al­so no­ti­fied.

Po­lice lat­er ar­rest­ed two sus­pects and seized a ve­hi­cle be­lieved to have been used in the kid­nap­ping.

An as­so­ciate said Ram­per­sad, who works as a grass cut­ter, es­caped from his ab­duc­tors and re­turned home around 4 a.m. on Sun­day with bruis­es to his head and body.

The po­lice were con­tact­ed, and Ram­per­sad was tak­en to the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal for treat­ment. En­quiries are con­tin­u­ing.

Ed­i­tor's note

This up­dates an ear­li­er sto­ry which did not re­flect Ram­per­sad's es­cape from his cap­tors.