Salina Police are investigating an incident in which a 43-year-old man says he was kidnapped from a local park and held for several days.
Salina Police Detective Sergeant David Villanueva said this morning that at 12:49 a.m. Monday, officers were dispatched to the 400 block of Montrose Street for the report of someone possibly being in an unoccupied house. He said that a neighbor reported seeing lights flashing in an unoccupied house that was undergoing renovation.
Officers looked through the window of the residence and saw a man bound by duct tape inside, Villanueva said. The man also had tape over his mouth, he added. Officers entered the house to rescue the man, who told them that on Thursday at approximately 10 a.m., he was walking in Oakdale Park with his purple walker when a female and two males took him against his will, Villanueva said.
The female and one of the males wore black ski masks, while the other male wore a clown mask, he said.
The man told police that the three had put a hood over his head and moved him from location to location since Thursday.
Villanueva asked that anyone who was in Oakdale Park Thursday morning who saw someone being put into a dark-colored SUV to please contact the Salina Police Department.
Villanueva said the man was checked out and medically cleared after being rescued from the house this morning.