Police have charged a Columbia man with kidnapping a woman in Lancaster city Saturday.
Lancaster city police charged Jvian Mendez-Gonzalez, 18, with felony kidnapping for trapping a woman in his car and driving at a high speed while threatening her.
According to a criminal complaint, the woman told police she met up with Mendez-Gonzalez in Holly Pointe Park, near the Conestoga River in southeast Lancaster, around 1 a.m. Saturday.
The woman told police that, after conversing in Mendez-Gonzalez's car for several hours, he became irate after seeing a promise ring on the woman's necklace. The woman told police he pulled the $200 necklace from her neck and threw it out the window into the park. She then got out of the car to look for it.
Police say that Mendez demanded the woman get back into the car and threatened to follow her if she tried to walk away.
When the woman got back in the vehicle, Mendez-Gonzalez refused to take the woman home and drove over 100 mph on Route 30 west, according to the criminal complaint. During this time police say he took the woman's phone from her and threatened to kill both himself and the passenger.
The woman told police that she knew Mendez-Gonzalez had access to firearms and feared for her life.
Police say that Menez-Gonzalez eventually stopped his vehicle in Columbia and allowed the woman to run out of the car.
In December, Columbia police arrested Mendez-Gonzalez on charges of marijuana possession and driving with a suspended license.
Mendez-Gonzalez is not listed in custody. Police did not respond to requests for additional information.
He faces a felony kidnapping charge and four misdemeanors for unlawful restraint, reckless endangerment, making terroristic threats and property damage.
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