Police in Hot Springs, Arkansas, have arrested two people in a case that prompted an Amber Alert Tuesday, Omar Cervantes with the police department.
Samuel Wayne Bolling, Jr., 38, of Hot Springs, and Dayla Diane Ferrer, 19, of Atoka, Tennessee, were booked on charges of kidnapping, aggravated robbery, false imprisonment, and battery.
Arkansas police sent out an Amber Alert Tuesday morning after a man told a missing 17-year-old girl's mother he would kill the girl without $10,000.
The girl and a co-worker were walking to their cars after work at a bakery in Hot Springs shortly after 9 p.m. Monday when they saw a stranger standing near a parked vehicle.
The stranger said she was lost and her parents were staying in a condo in Hot Springs. She asked to borrow a cellphone to use the GPS coordinates and asked the girl to walk closer to her.
The girl's co-worker left to go get her car in a nearby parking garage. When she returned, the girl and the stranger were gone.
The friend called the girl's phone but didn't get an answer. She then called the girl's mother.
The mom called the girl's phone several times.
The girl answered once and said, "everything is fine."
A male voice then came on the phone and demanded $10,000 for the girl's return or they would kill and cut up the victim. The phone went dead.
An Amber Alert was issued Tuesday morning.
The girl was found at a restaurant at about 3:20 p.m., with minor injuries, according to Cervantes. She was brought to a hospital nearby.
Detectives found Bolling and Ferrer at a hotel about a four-minute walk away from the restaurant.
The two were booked into the Garland County Detention Center without bond.
