2 suspects arrested in woman’s kidnapping
Published 11:28 pm Friday, April 20, 2012
Two Vicksburg men accused of kidnapping a woman were behind bars Friday after more than a day on the run.
Robert Buck, 34, 20 Water Well Road, and Peter Haggard, 42, 170 Curry St., were both taken into custody Friday afternoon, Sheriff Martin Pace said.
“Everyone involved in this is in custody, and we don’t expect any more arrests,” Pace said.
Buck faces charges of kidnapping and aggravated domestic violence stemming from the kidnapping, according to jail records. He also faces aggravated domestic violence charges from the Vicksburg Police Department.
Buck was arrested about 3 p.m. at a hotel on East Clay Street near Mississippi 27, when Pace, Lt. Randy Lewis and Investigators Stacy Rollison and Mike Traxler raided Buck’s room.
“We had a team of deputies surrounding the entire complex,” Pace said.
Haggard, who is charged with kidnapping, surrendered to Rollison at the sheriff’s office about 4:30 p.m., Pace said.
Buck and Haggard were held without bail pending their initial court appearance Monday.
The men are accused of abducting Buck’s former girlfriend, a 37-year-old Vicksburg woman, from outside the Culkin Water District office at Sherman Avenue and Culkin Road about 12:45 Thursday afternoon. Multiple witnesses to the abduction called 911 Thursday afternoon.
The woman escaped a few minutes later on Old Jackson Road in a ravine near property belonging to the Vicksburg National Military Park, Pace said.
A manhunt ensued and a third man believed to be involved in the abduction was arrested Thursday at Buck’s home on Water Well Road.
Corey Leon Patterson, 34, 801 First East St., was being held in the Warren County Jail Friday charged with being an accessory before the fact to kidnapping, according to jail records. He was also held for the Mississippi Department of Corrections on a warrant.
Patterson pleaded guilty to receiving stolen property in 2010 and was sentenced to a year in prison followed by three years probation.
In January following a drive-by shooting at the Water Well residence that left a 4-year-old boy injured, Vicksburg Police Chief Walter Armstrong said police had responded to the home more than 100 times since 1996.
Mary Ann Buck, the owner of the home, who has lived there since 1989, said in January that not all the calls were for illegal activity.