Woman kidnapped by boyfriend manages to signal police for help, Wichita cops say

While officers were investigating a domestic violence abduction on Saturday afternoon, the suspect drove by the scene, Wichita Police said in a Sunday news release.

That’s when the woman who was kidnapped signaled at police for help while in the moving car, Officer Charley Davidson said in the release.

The Wichita Police Department was at the apartments in the 2500 block of south Oliver at about 1:30 p.m. Saturday after a 40-year-old woman reported a domestic disturbance between her neighbor and her neighbor’s boyfriend, Davidson said. The reporting woman told police that the boyfriend drove away with his girlfriend in a car while “against her wishes,” Davidson said.

When the man drove by police, Davidson said the 30-year-old woman was “motioning at officers for help.” Police caught up to the couple in the 2000 block of south Old Manor, where the man stopped the car and ran away.

He then forced open the door of an unoccupied home, ran inside and barricaded the door closed, Davidson said.

Officers were able to force past the barricade and arrest the 23-year-old man without incident, the release states. The man was arrested and booked into jail on suspicion of kidnapping, criminal threats, felony obstruct, burglary, criminal damage to property and domestic violence battery.

Booking reports list Tyler Romans as the man arrested in connection to the domestic violence abduction.

The woman had minor injuries, Davidson said.