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Trash collectors spot suspects car after 10-year-old is abducted, Louisiana cops say
BY TANASIA KENNEY - FEBRUARY 08, 2021 04:17 PM
A missing 10-year-old girl is back home safe thanks to a pair of attentive city sanitation workers, Louisiana authorities say.
The two men were on their trash route early Monday when they spotted a gray car ducked off in a wooded field in St. Martin Parish, about 50 miles west of Baton Rouge, according to a video posted online. Inside the car was Jalisa Lassalle, 10, who authorities said had been kidnapped the night before.
I thank God, trash collector Dion Merrick says in the clip as officers lead the accused abductor, 33-year-old Michael Sereal, away in handcuffs. He blessed us to find that little girl.
Jalisa was reported missing from New Iberia on Sunday, and an Amber Alert was issued later that evening, KATC reported. It was Merrick and fellow city worker Brandon Antoine who spotted the sedan described in the alert as they worked their morning shift, New Iberia police said in statement announcing that the 10-year-old had been found safe.
Both men are employees with Pelican Waste & Debris, the sanitation company confirmed in a Facebook post.
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