FORT WORTH, Texas — A man is in custody after police say he stole a van with the owner inside and drove it from Fort Worth to Dallas Friday morning.
The owner of the van is OK after police say witnesses reported seeing a person yelling for help through the back window.
Fort Worth police say a man called 911 to report another man acting erratically while trying to steal his van near the intersection of Riverside Drive and E. Lancaster Avenue, just south of I-30 shortly before 8 a.m. Friday.
Police said the two men involved in the domestic dispute were a couple.
The 911 call disconnected, police say, but minutes later, dispatchers got the owner of the van back on the phone and were told that there was a struggle and the caller was in the back of the van that had been stolen.
Police say the caller stayed on the phone with dispatchers as the van was driven through Fort Worth, Arlington, Grand Prairie, and Dallas.
‘While traveling through Fort Worth, several community members called in to report a white van swerving in and out of traffic while driving at a high rate of speed,” Fort Worth police said in a press release. “Callers also stated they could see a man through the back window yelling for help trying to get their attention. At one point, a caller stated that the back door had swung open while the suspect continued to drive dangerously.”
Police say they tracked down the van to the 3900 block of Linfield Road in Dallas, and they took a 29-year-old man into custody shortly after locating the van just before 9 a.m. Friday.
Records show Takim Peden, 29, on the jail blotter on a complaint of aggravated kidnapping causing bodily injury.
"You just cant hold a human against their own will," FWPD PIO Buddy Calzada said during a press conference Friday evening.
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