New details from Cielo Vista Mall kidnapping
Update: The 26-year-old victim involved in the Cielo Vista Mall kidnapping that occurred on Sept. 6, has been named as Maria Isabel Garcia Nunez.
Detectives were able to obtain footage from the GECU at 7227 Viscount Boulevard where Garcia Nunez was threatened to withdraw the $5,000. Surveillance footage at the ATM confirmed Escobedo getting out of the passenger side and into the drivers seat to move the vehicle to another spot.
Crime Scene reported that one fingerprint from both sides of the vehicle where Escobedo entered matched his prints. Fingerprints lifted from the car were confirmed to match those lifted on the surveillance camera Escobedo tampered with.
The description by Garcia Nunez also matched that of the investigation and surveillance. Garcia Nunez confirmed she does not know anyone by that name who would have access to her vehicle.
Update: ABC-7 has confirmed that Escobedo was an employee of Gadsden ISD.
EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) -- El Paso Police arrested 52-year-old Victor Hugo Escobedo in the parking lot of Cielo Vista Mall on multiple aggravated kidnapping charges.
Police officials say that officers were called out on a reported kidnapping. They met with a 26-year-old woman who told officers that Escobedo approached her with a gun in the mall parking lot and told her to get into her car. The woman said that Escobedo then forced her to drive to a bank. She told police that Escobedo waited in her car with the gun and her 2-year-old daughter while she went into the bank.
Escobedo then forced the woman to drop him back off at the mall, police say. He then allegedly took her money and her phone. The woman then contacted police.
