Police reveal disturbing new particulars after lacking 11-year-old and 15-year-old boys discovered behind Florida man’s truck | EUROtoday

Florida authorities have launched disturbing new particulars in regards to the kidnapping and alleged abuse of an 11-year-old boy who was reported lacking and later discovered alive with a registered intercourse offender.

Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly mentioned Friday that the boy had been lacking from St. Johns County for no less than three days. According to investigators, the kid was kidnapped by Darnell Hairston, a 60-year-old intercourse offender from Hastings.

The boy advised deputies that Hairston lured him to a wooded campsite in Flagler Estates, the place he was held for “multiple days.”

The baby mentioned Hairston choked him till he misplaced consciousness. When he wakened, the boy mentioned Hairston threatened him with a knife, tied him up with shoelaces and an extension wire, and positioned duct tape over his mouth, Staly mentioned. Detectives searched Hairston’s truck, dwelling and campsite, recovering duct tape, weapons, and surveillance tools matching the kid’s account.

Sheriff Staly mentioned investigators imagine the kidnapping could also be related to a separate alleged intercourse crime involving Hairston and one other minor in St. Johns County, which the 11-year-old might have recognized about and even witnessed.

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The sheriff mentioned the kid feared Hairston and believed he can be killed. The boy advised deputies that when Hairston traveled anyplace, he was compelled to cover underneath a blanket on the floorboard of the truck.

On New Year’s Eve, authorities stopped Hairson’s Ford F-150, discovering the preteen, in addition to a 15-year-old boy.

Officials positioned the 11-year-old in a patrol automobile whereas Hairston tried to flee on foot, however deputies shortly tackled him. Hairston is accused of attempting to seize a deputy’s gun in the course of the battle.

At the identical time, the 15-year-old acquired again into Hairston’s truck and drove off, almost working over the foot of a deputy who was holding Hairston on the bottom, Staly mentioned.

The teen crashed the truck right into a deputy’s automobile, went off the street, and flipped the truck, however the deputy was unhurt.

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Authorities mentioned the 15-year-old with Hairston could also be a co-conspirator within the 11-year-old’s kidnapping. He faces grand theft fees for taking Hairston’s truck and had prior fees, together with fleeing, battery on an officer, reckless driving, driving with out a license, and resisting an officer.

Hairston now faces 4 extra fees — kidnapping, aggravated baby abuse, battery by strangulation and theft with a lethal weapon — on prime of resisting an officer with violence and making an attempt to take a legislation enforcement officer’s firearm fees from the visitors cease.

Hairston is being held in jail, now with out bond.

This case stays underneath investigation.