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Police: Fla. Mom Thwarts Kidnapper At Grocery Store
POSTED: 6:07 am EST March 16, 2004
TAMPA, Fla. -- Police say a suspicious mom thwarted an attempted kidnapping after a man at a grocery store approached her daughter and a friend, said he was a security guard and told them they needed to come with him.
Michael Bruno, 35, of St. Petersburg, was charged with felony attempted kidnapping, Tampa police said Monday.
Police said that on Saturday, Bruno approached 11-year-old Amanda Jorgensen and 12-year-old Haley Cohen at a Winn-Dixie a few feet from Haley's mother, Judy Cohen, 48.
Cohen said he told her he saw one of the girls put something in her pocket and that Amanda needed to come with him.
When Cohen asked him for identification, he told her this was a police matter and insisted that Amanda needed to leave, she said.
Cohen grasped the girls' hands.
"I said, 'We'll all go with you as soon as you show some ID,'" she said.
She said he shrugged and turned away, and she followed him toward the front of the store.
After he ditched his basket of groceries and walked toward the exit, Cohen yelled for someone to stop him, saying he had tried to kidnap a child.
"I was pretty hysterical at that point because I realized what had happened," she said.
A customer and a clerk chased the man across the road and cornered him about two blocks and held him for police.
Bruno was held without bail Monday at Orient Road Jail. Police spokesman Joe Durkin said Bruno told officers he had "blacked out and did not remember anything."
Public records show Bruno received a year of probation in 1998 after he pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors, battery and trespassing.
http://www.local6.com/news/2924806/detail.html
Police: Fla. Mom Thwarts Kidnapper At Grocery Store
POSTED: 6:07 am EST March 16, 2004
TAMPA, Fla. -- Police say a suspicious mom thwarted an attempted kidnapping after a man at a grocery store approached her daughter and a friend, said he was a security guard and told them they needed to come with him.
Michael Bruno, 35, of St. Petersburg, was charged with felony attempted kidnapping, Tampa police said Monday.
Police said that on Saturday, Bruno approached 11-year-old Amanda Jorgensen and 12-year-old Haley Cohen at a Winn-Dixie a few feet from Haley's mother, Judy Cohen, 48.
Cohen said he told her he saw one of the girls put something in her pocket and that Amanda needed to come with him.
When Cohen asked him for identification, he told her this was a police matter and insisted that Amanda needed to leave, she said.
Cohen grasped the girls' hands.
"I said, 'We'll all go with you as soon as you show some ID,'" she said.
She said he shrugged and turned away, and she followed him toward the front of the store.
After he ditched his basket of groceries and walked toward the exit, Cohen yelled for someone to stop him, saying he had tried to kidnap a child.
"I was pretty hysterical at that point because I realized what had happened," she said.
A customer and a clerk chased the man across the road and cornered him about two blocks and held him for police.
Bruno was held without bail Monday at Orient Road Jail. Police spokesman Joe Durkin said Bruno told officers he had "blacked out and did not remember anything."
Public records show Bruno received a year of probation in 1998 after he pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors, battery and trespassing.
http://www.local6.com/news/2924806/detail.html
