The Merced County Sheriff’s Office stated in a press release that investigators recognized 48-year-old Jesus Salgado after utilizing the victims’ ATM playing cards. The household was kidnapped at gunpoint from a enterprise in Merced on Monday, the workplace stated with out offering additional particulars.
According to Naindeep Singh, head of an area Sikh group organisation, the 4 had been taken from their very own gasoline station and comfort retailer.
Detectives obtained a surveillance photograph from an ATM in Atwater, a city about 14 km north of Merced, and “the person is identical to the surveillance photo from the scene of the original abduction,” the workplace stated in a press release. The sheriff’s workplace had launched two nonetheless pictures of a possible suspect seen in surveillance footage, and sought the general public’s assist in figuring out him.
Detectives obtained data that Salgado was recognized as an individual of curiosity and tried to take his personal life earlier than police arrived, the assertion stated, including that he was taken into custody. The sheriff’s workplace will maintain a information convention on Wednesday to offer extra particulars.
This October 4, 2022, video picture launched by the Merced County Sheriff’s Office reveals the suspect within the kidnapping case (Mercedes County Sheriff’s Office by way of AP)
The kidnapper took the kid, Aarohi Dheri; The kid’s mom, Jasleen Kaur, 27; father Jasdeep Singh, 36; And uncle Amandeep Singh, 39, informed Merced County Sheriff Vern Warneke in a video revealed Monday on Facebook. Warneke stated the kidnapper didn’t make any ransom calls for or contact.
Nandeep Singh, govt director of the Jakara Movement, a corporation of the Punjabi Sikh group in Central California, stated kin of the victims informed them the household had been taken away from their gasoline station.
“They were in shock and worried about the family and the child. They are in great pain,” stated Nandeep Singh, who shouldn’t be associated to the victims. He stated the household has sought privateness.
The sheriff stated detectives consider the kidnapper destroyed unspecified proof in an try and cowl his tracks.
The sheriff’s workplace stated in a press release on Tuesday that firefighters discovered a pickup truck belonging to Amandeep Singh on Monday that caught fireplace. Merced Police Department officers went to Amandeep Singh’s home the place a member of the family tried to succeed in him and the couple. When he couldn’t attain his members of the family, he referred to as the Merced County Sheriff’s Office to report them lacking, the workplace stated.
The sheriff’s workplace stated the FBI, the California Department of Justice and different native legislation enforcement businesses are serving to with the investigation.
Merced is a metropolis of 86,000 individuals within the San Joaquin Valley, about 200 km southeast of San Francisco.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
