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t ByPATLAKEY Staff writerOLE SPRINGS - Jack fiajtys Cornett, 29, of Placerville mb booked into the El Dorado (ttity Jail Saturday after he wedly forced a 20year*old |j|Mn and a 15-year-old girl into hjcpickup truck at gunpoint.woman, Pamela Ann Bor-and the teenager, Michelle LftMh Sellers, managed to escape after they jumped from the moving vehicle as it neared Mother Lode Drive from Old French Town Road, according to sheriff’s deputies. Sellers suffered cuts and abrasions, and may have sufferedbroken toes as a result of jumping from the pickup truck, reports said. Boring reportedly was not injured.Boring told deputies she and Sdlers were in a mobile home on Bqnanza Auto Road shortly after midnight Saturday. The pair were drawing pictures, Boring said. Sellers' mother, Lynn MacCauiey, came into the room and told the pair to leave the room, so MacCauiey could use the room, Boringrelated.Boring and Sellers went into the kitchen, continuing to draw, when 45 minutes later MacCauiey came in and reportedly told them Cornett, who was at the mobile home, was acting weird. MacCauiey added that Cornett was about to blow it and indicated she wanted him out of the residence, Boring told authorities.Cornett then came into the kitchen and ordered Sellers to go out to his truck and fetch his silver, Boring continued. He told Boring to get his overcoat, she said. Boring said she and Sellers complied with his requests, and met him outside by his pickup truck.Instead of leaving by himself, however, Cornett allegedly ordered Sellers to get into the vehicle, grabbing a rifle from the truck as he did so. Boring told deputies she tried to calm down Cornett as he began loading the gun,'but his only response was to say, Someone’s going to pay for■gjftg..this.Cornett then ordered Boring to get into the vehicle, she told deputies. Boring added that she tried to convince Cornett to let the younger girl stay behind, but herefused.At one point as the truck began traveling northbound on Old French Town Road, Cornett handed the rifle to Sellers. Boring told deputies she and Sellers didn’t tijr to escape at that point, however, because they feared Cornett hadanother gun, a handgun. Soon Cornett retrieved the rifle fromSellers and began waving it around, Boring told deputies.Cornett drank wine as the triodrove along, Boring reported. She said she had formulated an escape plan that she intended to use when Cornett stopped the truck at a stop sign at the intersection with Mother Lode Drive, but when it became apparent he didn’t intend to stop for the sign, Boring said she opened the door as Cornett slowed to make a turn around a comer, and both she and Sellers jumped out.The last sight they had of Cornett, Boring said, was of him standing in the road, holding the rifle. Boring and Sellers began running southbound on Marcelais Road, she said. She added that seconds later they saw Cornett’s pickup truck traveling back the way it had come, and Boring speculated that he was returning to the Bonanza Auto Road area.Sellers told sheriffs deputies she was terrified during the incident, and feared that Cornett was going to shoot her and Boring.Deputies, alerted to the incident after the victims went to the nearest residence to call for help, reported seeing a vehicle matching Cornett’s while deputieswere en route to the mobile home. The vehicle accelerated rapidly, deputies reported, and they added that there appeared to be two men in the truck.Later, deputies would loamfrom Craig WUdman, 17, that Cornett had returned to Bonanza Auto Road, picked up WUdman, and told Mm he’d need WUdman to drive the pickup truck home after the sheriff takes me tojail,” according to deputies’reports.WUdman added that Cornett, while driving along GreenstoneRoad, Highway 50 and El Dorado Road, told WUdman that Cornett needed a fix, and that everything would be aU right if I had a■hn| 99snot.Deputies, after arresting Cornett, reportedly confiscated aninsulin syringe with a needle, a metal spoon, a cotton swab, a second syringe and two more needles during a routine jail booking search.Cornett was arrested in a traveltrailer near the mobile home on Bonanza Auto Rood, where he was found allegedly hiding under some blankets. Sheriff’s search dogs aided in locating the suspect.WUdman told deputies that Cornett had spotted the deputies, and drove back to the Bonanza Auto Road location after telling WUdman, I ain’t going back to jaU.After arriving at the mobile home,Wildman said Cornett fled, running.Wildman added that just beforethey went back to the mobile home park, Cornett first stopped at a residence on El Dorado Road. WUdman said Cornett went there alone, then returned to the truck, telling WUdman the residents of that home threw me out at gunpointWildman also told deputies Cornett drank wine during the time hespent with him.Cornett, who reportedly is aregistered drug offender who has several aliases, was booked on suspicion of kidnapping. A deputy recommended charges of possessing ntimttw paraphernalia also be added. Cornett was in custody at press time in lieu of $15,900 bail.
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Placerville Mountain Democrat
Placerville, California, US
Wed, Dec 11, 1985
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