08-17-2011, 09:43 AM
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Check out CNN affiliate KOAT-TV in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for local reports.
(CNN) -- A New Mexico man is credited with rescuing a 6-year-old after he chased down a suspected kidnapper who hurled the girl into his van and took off.
The girl went to a neighbor's house Monday to pick up a package of tostadas, authorities said.
Antonio Diaz Chacon noticed a commotion when a man grabbed the girl at a mobile home park in southwest Albuquerque.
Chacon saw the man, later identified as Phillip Garcia, cover her mouth and place her in a blue van, according to an Albuquerque police report.
"We heard a man going, 'Hey, hey, let her go,'" his wife, Martha Diaz, told a 911 dispatcher. "The man came running to us. He said, 'They stole our little girl.'"
"My husband went after him," she said.
As Chacon followed Garcia, police received a frantic call from a 12-year-old sibling of the kidnapped girl.
"What's wrong?" the 911 operator asks.
"My little sister is missing," was the response. "She went to go to the neighbors. ... The neighbor is right here ... and when she was coming back, or on her way, she just like disappeared."
Chacon chased the van for several miles before Garcia crashed into a light pole and fled on foot, allowing him to rescue the girl and return her home, police said.
Garcia later returned to the van, police said. He fled down the roadway and got stuck on a mesa before being apprehended, police said.
Garcia has been charged with kidnapping, child abuse and tampering with evidence.
A search of the van found a package of tostadas like the ones the girl went to get, police said.
The girl's father said he appreciates what Chacon did.
suspect
Check out CNN affiliate KOAT-TV in Albuquerque, New Mexico, for local reports.
(CNN) -- A New Mexico man is credited with rescuing a 6-year-old after he chased down a suspected kidnapper who hurled the girl into his van and took off.
The girl went to a neighbor's house Monday to pick up a package of tostadas, authorities said.
Antonio Diaz Chacon noticed a commotion when a man grabbed the girl at a mobile home park in southwest Albuquerque.
Chacon saw the man, later identified as Phillip Garcia, cover her mouth and place her in a blue van, according to an Albuquerque police report.
"We heard a man going, 'Hey, hey, let her go,'" his wife, Martha Diaz, told a 911 dispatcher. "The man came running to us. He said, 'They stole our little girl.'"
"My husband went after him," she said.
As Chacon followed Garcia, police received a frantic call from a 12-year-old sibling of the kidnapped girl.
"What's wrong?" the 911 operator asks.
"My little sister is missing," was the response. "She went to go to the neighbors. ... The neighbor is right here ... and when she was coming back, or on her way, she just like disappeared."
Chacon chased the van for several miles before Garcia crashed into a light pole and fled on foot, allowing him to rescue the girl and return her home, police said.
Garcia later returned to the van, police said. He fled down the roadway and got stuck on a mesa before being apprehended, police said.
Garcia has been charged with kidnapping, child abuse and tampering with evidence.
A search of the van found a package of tostadas like the ones the girl went to get, police said.
The girl's father said he appreciates what Chacon did.