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In addition to my ministry on abuse, I work as a volunteer Virginia Beach
Police Chaplain. Last Saturday I pulled into the parking lot at the Lynnhaven
Mall in a Police Chaplain car, and a woman ran up to me in hysterics. "He's
stealing my children, he's stealing my children," she screamed.
"Who?" I asked, thinking it was a car jacking. She was so hysterical
I couldn't understand her. There were at least eight cars leaving
the parking lot, which one? Time was running out, the perpetrator would
soon be lost in traffic. Inspiration struck, "Get in," I instructed.
As we followed the departing cars I had the distraught mother point out
the vehicle the kidnapper was in.
By the time we pulled out on Lynnhaven Parkway, I was behind him. I punched
the key on my police radio, "Chaplain 2 to dispatch, be advised of
a child abduction at the Lynnhaven Mall, . . . suspect is driving a grey/blue
Plymouth Voyager, Ohio License 2001, number _ _ _ _ _ _ _ and currently
is northbound on Lynnhaven Parkway, heading towards the interstate."
Within five minutes two police cars had him boxed in, front and back.
We had apprehended an estranged husband who was attempting to abduct his
children to Ohio. When I got home all I could do was thank God for having
me at the right place at the right time!
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