Police: NM kidnapper thwarted by alert neighbor
Read the dramatic account here.
The pair of 911 calls came in quick succession from a New Mexico mobile home park.
On one, a frantic 12-year-old says her little sister is missing. On the other is the wife of the man who would be credited with saving the 6-year-old from every parent’s nightmare.
“We are outside of my mom’s house here,” Martha Diaz told the dispatcher. “We heard a man going, `Hey, hey let her go. Let her go.’ So we turn around …
“The man came running to us and said, `They stole a little girl.’”
Phillip Garcia, 29, had snatched the girl moments earlier on Monday afternoon in Albuquerque, taking her away in a blue van, police said. Diaz’s husband, Antonio Diaz Chacon, gave chase.
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It would have been horrible!