6/10/2009 9:00:00 PM YCSO deputies nab kidnapping suspect near Sunset Point
Matthew Johnson
Emery Johnson
The Daily Courier
Shortly after midnight on Tuesday, Yavapai County sheriff's deputies caught two Phoenix men wanted in connection with the robbery and kidnapping of a Tuba City man in the parking lot of a Flagstaff Wal-Mart an hour earlier.
The deputies saw the suspects' car traveling south on Interstate 17 near Sunset Point and pulled them over, according to a sheriff's press release.
Deputies recovered a handgun, the kidnapped victim's cell phone and a large amount of money, the release said.
Flagstaff police took custody of the two suspects - Emery Johnson, 35, and Matthew Johnson, 26 - and returned them to Flagstaff for booking on charges of armed robbery and kidnapping.
Flagstaff police said a 29-year-old Tuba City man was walking with his girlfriend through the parking lot of the Wal-Mart store to go shopping when a man called him to his car.
The victim walked to the passenger side of the car and saw another man in the backseat pointing a gun at him.
The men told the victim to get in, drove him a short distance away and then released him after taking his cell phone and wallet. The victim ran back to Wal-Mart and called police.
Yavapai deputies arrested the two suspects without incident, the press release said.
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Posted: Thursday, June 11, 2009
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Armed and dangerous if needed.
Good reason to have a CCW Permit and some training in deadly force needed to protect yourself.
Not a good idea to go to a stranger's car in the first place.
Glad it wasn't me, there could have been a couple idiots with major holes in their heads.
