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«*t ByPATLAKEYStftff writerOLE SPRINGS - JackI9ji$s Cornett, 29, of PlacervilleA booked into the El Dorado CMfity Jail Saturday after he wedly forced a 20-year-old fflpum and a 15-year-old girl into Hkpickup truck at gunpoint.«|le woman, Pamela Ann Bor-i*L and the teenager, Michelle LMi Sellers, managed to escape after they jumped from the mov-ing vehicle as it neared Mother Looe Drive from Old French Town Road, according to sheriff'sdeputies. Sellers suffered cuts and abrasions, and may have suffered broken toes as a result of jumping from the pickup truck, reports said. Boring reportedly was not injured.Boring told deputies she and SdUers were in a mobile home on Bonanza Auto Road shortly after midnight Saturday. The pair were drawing pictures, Boring said. Sellers' mother, Lynn MacCauley, came into the room and told the pair to leave the room, so Mac-Caoley could use the room, Boringrelated.Boring and Sellers went into the kitchen, continuing to draw, when 45 minutes later MacCauley came in and reportedly told them Cornett, who was at the mobile home, was acting weird. MacCauley 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 Boringto 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 Coiroett as he began loading the gun,'but his only response was to say, Someone’s going to pay forthis.Cornett then ordered Boring to get into the vehicle, she toM deputies. Boring added that she tried to convince Cornett to let the younger girl stay behind, but he refused.At one point as the truck begantraveling 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 had another 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 wasgoing 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 deputies were 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 learnfrom Craig WUdman, 17, that Cornett had returned to Bonanza Auto Road, picked up WUdman, and told him he'd need WUdman to drive the pickup truck homeafter the sheriff takes me tojail, according to deputies’reports.WUdman added that Cornett, while driving along GreenstoneRoad, Highway 50 and El DoradoRoad, told WUdman that Cornettneeded a fix, and that everything would be aU right UI had a■Kn| 99snot.Deputies, after arresting Cornett, reportedly confiscated an insulin” 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 before they went back to the mobile homepark, Cornett first stopped at a residence on El Dorado Road. Wildman said Cornett went there alone, then returned to the truck, telling WUdman the residents of that home threw me out at gunpoint.WUdman also told deputies Cornett drank wine during the time he spent with him.Cornett, who reportedly is a registered drug offender who has several aliases, was booked on suspicion of kidnapping. A deputyrecommended charges of possessing narwtiff paraphernalia *****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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