By Carey Phillips
A man charged with kidnapping his former girlfriend from the Western
Carolina University campus is free on $10,000 bond, and his case
was continued Tuesday in Jackson County District Court.
An arrest warrant lists the man's name as Victor Hugo Morales, 18,
of Hendersonville, However, court officials said his name was given
as Pedro Fernando Montes Castro during a bond hearing last week.
As a condition of posting bond on the second-degree kidnapping charge,
Castro was ordered to have no contact with the victim and to stay
off the WCU campus.
Lupita Carral of Edneyville, a WCU student living in Harrill Dorm,
was taken against her will from the parking lot behind Harrill,
said Gene McAbee, WCU's director of police.
He said the first call was received about 4:45 p.m. from the victim's
mother in Henderson County. She said her daughter had called a friend
on her cell phone reporting the incident, and the friend in turn
called the girl's mother.
A second call indicated they were possibly en route to Hendersonville
via Cashiers, according to McAbee.
The girl later entered a convenience store in Mills River and told
what had happened. Officers from the Henderson County Sheriff's
Department found the ex-boyfriend walking nearby a short time later.
McAbee said the couple had not dated for around six months. |
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