HOMESTEAD – A 13-calendar year-old girl is talking out right after she and police say a male attempted to abduct her very last Friday morning.
Candice Ramirez retold CBS News Miami’s Peter D’Oench that it was 7:05 a.m. previous Friday when she was using her chihuahua Milo for a stroll in advance of college when a guy quickly approached her and experimented with to abduct her.
She was able to split absent from him and operate inside her condominium near Krome Avenue and connect with police. Police are calling her a “superstar” for carrying out what she did.
Ramirez said “I was strolling near the entrance to my house when a man who I thought was just doing the job on a vehicle came up to me. I overlooked him since I failed to know him but all of a unexpected he attempted to get me and I set Pushed and ran away and I screamed. I was shocked. I ran to my house. I couldn’t consider of nearly anything else. I was crying and I imagined this has never took place to me before. I was just contemplating why did this come about? Why did this take place to me? Appropriate now I am experience a very little ill.”
“I don’t know when I will go back to school,” she claimed. “I need to acquire some time off for a although. I just want to say to the girls out there, always carry anything to defend you if a male arrives up to you.”
The good thing is, she was not injured.
Her mom, Maria Perez Lopez, reported she was alarmed.
“I am really very afraid,” she explained. “I see all those vehicles likely by and I speculate what is likely to transpire. What takes place if anyone knocks on my door. I do not want this to transpire once again. I am imagining of shifting.”
Homestead Police say 43-calendar year-previous Michael Luprecio has been arrested and billed with attempted kidnapping, battery and driving with a suspended license.
Law enforcement say they had been capable to obtain CCTV surveillance movie and get information and facts about the car or truck that drove away. They also set out a BOLO for a black Tahoe.
That identical day, they say they were ready to find the car and Luprecio.
Captain Fernando Morales stated, “I are not able to say ample about the actions of the officers and the detectives. And the celebrity is the victim who did what she experienced to do to get away and get hold of police which is what we urge everybody to do.”
Police urge others to simply call them if they had been approached by Luprecio.
In court docket, his defense attorney pointed out that he was a cancer patient going through chemotherapy. But the choose reported he was billed with attempted kidnapping and battery and Luprecio was held without bond.
