Richmond-area man caught on video in woman’s abduction pleads guilty – Richmond Times-Dispatch: Ap

By | September 11, 2015

PHILADELPHIA (AP) – The man accused of abducting a Philadelphia woman seen on surveillance video struggling while being grabbed off a city street has pleaded guilty to a federal kidnapping charge.Delvin Barnes, whose primary address was in Charles City County, entered the plea Thursday. His plea agreement calls for a sentence of 35 years in prison.The 38-year-old Barnes allegedly grabbed Carlesha Freeland-Gaither near a Philadelphia bus stop last November and forced the screaming, struggling woman into his car. She was 22 at the time.A massive manhunt ensued and federal agents found them three days later in his car in Jessup, Maryland.Barnes is also charged in the abduction of a 16-year-old girl in Virginia in early October 2014.Barnes allegedly hit her with a shovel and took her to a mobile home where he doused her in bleach and gasoline before she escaped.

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