Salazar faces kidnapping charge
A Rock Island man has been bound over to the grand jury for allegedly abducting and assaulting his former girlfriend last year.
The suspect, Amado Francisco Salazar, is free on bond waiting for his case to go before the grand jury next month. He is charged with the felony offenses of kidnapping and aggravated assault. He was bound to the grand jury following a preliminary hearing last week in General Sessions Court.
The female victim maintains she was visiting a friend at Wayside Trailer Court on Dec. 3 of last year when Salazar pulled her from her car and forced her into his vehicle. The woman said Salazar struck her repeatedly while he drove down the road, leaving her with contusions to her head, chest, hip and thighs.
The woman said, in warrants against Salazar, her abductor threw her from his vehicle, while it was still moving, leaving her lying in the front yard of a residence. Defense attorney Scott Horton disputed the victim’s story during hearing Tuesday. However, Judge Larry Ross found enough probable cause in the victim’s story and that of the victim’s witness, to bind the case over.
Salazar and the victim had reportedly been in a long-term relationship prior to the alleged crime, living together for several years.