A Searcy man charged with kidnapping in the taking of a man from his Carlisle home posted a $150,000 bond Tuesday, authorities said.
Lonoke County sheriffs’ deputies charged Steven King, 52, with kidnapping, aggravated residential burglary, aggravated assault and felony terroristic threatening Sunday evening.
At about 6:25 p.m. that day, in a “frantic” 911 call, a woman said her 57-year-old boyfriend had been taken from their residence on North Walter Chapel Road in Carlisle at gunpoint, according to a news release.
She told responding deputies that two men came to the house and said they were looking for a dog and then revealed handguns, at which point she and her boyfriend ran out the back door of the home and into an adjacent field, the release states.
According to police, the woman said neither she nor her boyfriend knew the two men, who also took the victim’s white Ford van.
At about 9:37 p.m., White County deputies found the abducted man on Bostic Road in White County, where he earlier had been tied up inside of a vehicle.
He was able to escape from the vehicle and run to a nearby home where he called for help, police said.
King was then detained by White County officers, though the news release does not detail how. The van and a white Nissan truck used in the kidnapping were impounded, police said.
Officers took King to the Lonoke County jail, but he posted bond after his court hearing Tuesday and remains free.
Investigators are still attempting to identify the second man involved in the kidnapping and the reason for it, the news release said.
The Arkansas State Police assisted in the search, providing a helicopter. The victim, whose name has not been released by police, received minor injuries but was not taken to a hospital.
“This is all we are releasing at this time,” Lt. James Kulesa, a spokesman for the Lonoke County sheriff’s office, said Tuesday afternoon.
Arkansas, Pages 10 on 04/03/2013