Stafford County, Va. –– A man was abducted a party Saturday, held at gunpoint, and then was able to find a sheriff’s deputy who helped arrest his alleged captor.
Stafford County authorities say a sheriff’s deputy was sitting in a lot off Warrenton Road (U.S. 17) in the southern portion of the county when a 19-year-old man walked up to him in tears and said he had just been held at gunpoint, robbed of his cell phone and then let out of the a car.
The deputy learned the two men had been at a party in Stafford County, and that while at the party the suspect stepped outside to make a phone call. When the victim went outside to where the suspect was to retrieve something from the car, the suspect ordered him into the car and sped off, said Stafford sheriff’s spokesman Bill Kennedy.
The suspect then drove the victim to the U.S. 17 area, brandished a handgun and then fired several rounds through the car’s sunroof. The suspect later pointed the gun at the victim, took his cell phone, and then allowed the victim to get out of the car, said Kennedy.
The investigating deputy began a search for a black car, going off the description given to him by the victim.
That car was later found on Caroline Street in Downtown Fredericksburg and the driver arrested.
Nathan Devol, 25, of Bellau Wood Drive in Triangle, faces multiple charges that include use of a firearm in a robbery, robbery, reckless handling of a firearm and abduction, said Kennedy.
He was held at the Rappahannock Regional Jail with no bond.
