Police find woman who was seen on doorbell camera being dragged from Wichita home
Wichita police now say they’ve found the woman captured on a home doorbell camera, screaming and struggling with a man who dragged her away.
The woman, 35, called police investigators around 3 p.m. Tuesday and was taken to Wichita City Hall.
“At this stage of the investigation, we believe this incident is a case of domestic violence between the female and her boyfriend. The female does not have any significant injuries,” police said around 5 p.m in a Facebook post.
Police said later Tuesday that they had arrested a 22-year-old man accused of aggravated battery strangulation, domestic simple battery and criminal restraint. Branden Stitt, a public information officer with the Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office, said Wednesday that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had placed an immigration detainer on the man.
The woman is safe and lives in the area where the video was captured, police said.
“We want to thank the public for sharing the video and still images that generated additional attention about this incident, we do believe it led the female to call us saying she was the person we were looking for,” the post continued.
The news comes after Crime Stoppers earlier Monday offered a $2,000 reward for any information leading to the identity of the woman or the man whom it appeared took her.
The Wichita Police Department said Tuesday morning that two dozen Crime Stoppers tips that came in after the agency shared still images and video of the ordeal yielded nothing useful.
The woman was seen on a home doorbell camera being forcibly dragged away from a home in the 1400 block of North Volutsia, near 13th and Grove, around 2 a.m. Sunday morning.
The video, released in full on social media on Monday afternoon, showed her heading for the front entryway of a home when a man comes up from behind, wraps his arms around her and forces her down a driveway. She screams and struggles as she is taken away.
The owner of the doorbell camera noticed the footage and called authorities at 7:48 p.m. Sunday, police have said.
More than a day’s worth of efforts to identify and locate the woman, including door-to-door canvasses of the surrounding neighborhood and a search through the city’s Flock traffic cameras, had been fruitless, police said Tuesday morning. Police had no other video of the possible abduction and did not know whether the man or woman were local residents, whether they left the area in a vehicle or on foot, or what the woman was screaming.
Wichita police Capt. Todd Ojile said Crime Stoppers received nine tips after the department first shared a photo of the woman on social media Sunday night. Fifteen additional Crime Stoppers tips came in overnight Monday into Tuesday after the department released the doorbell camera video in full, he said.
In addition to knocking on neighbors’ doors, the officers who initially responded to the area also checked missing persons reports back to Oct. 1 and nearby disturbance calls but found nothing, Ojile said. A review of license plate reader data for the area and a second neighborhood canvass also yielded no leads or new video footage, he said.
Ojile said the department had sought the help of local, regional and federal law enforcement agencies, as well as the private sector, to process the doorbell footage in hopes that it would reveal new information.
This story was originally published October 14, 2025 at 12:59 PM.
