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Pasadena Kidnapping Suspect Identified and Arrested
News May 11, 2016
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On Saturday, April 30, at approximately 10 p.m., two 18-year-old females were waiting at a bus stop at Fair Oaks Avenue and Montana Street in Pasadena when they were offered a ride by a male in an older extra cab pick-up truck. After some coaxing by the driver, the women accepted his offer. The women soon noticed that the suspect was not driving them to the direction they requested.
As the suspect drove on to the 210 Freeway onramp at Mountain Street, one of the female victims in the front passenger seat opened the door and jumped from the moving truck. A passerby saw her fall from the truck and called 911. The victim was subsequently transported to a local hospital and suffered a fractured ankle.
A short time later, a California Highway Patrol (CHP) officer contacted the second female victim on the 110 Freeway at Olympic Boulevard, believing she was a hit-and-run victim, and learned of the kidnapping from Pasadena. LAPD Officers responded and transported the second victim to the Pasadena Police Department where officers learned the suspect had brandished a handgun, demanded sexual favors, and threatened to kill the second as he drove with her. While in the area of the 110 Freeway South and Olympic Boulevard, the second victim pulled on the vehicle’s steering wheel causing the suspect vehicle to collide with another vehicle on the freeway. The suspect then opened the front passenger door and pushed the victim out of the slow moving truck before speeding away. An uninvolved motorist stopped to assist the victim who suffered an injury to her shoulder and arm.
Pasadena Police Detectives immediately began an intensive investigation and discovered the suspect was a parolee outfitted with a GPS monitoring device. The suspect was on parole for a PC 220 (assault to commit mayhem) conviction in June 2008.
On Wednesday, May 4, Anthony Seth McDaniel, 38, African American male and Compton resident, was arrested by the United States Marshal’s Pacific Southwest Fugitive Task Force as he left his place of employment in Carson.
McDaniel was booked for PC 209(b)1 (kidnapping for purposes of sexual assault). McDaniel remains in custody at the Los Angeles County jail with bail set at $2 million.
The investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information is asked to contact Pasadena Police Detective Robin Stinson at (626) 744-7099, the Pasadena Police Dispatch non- emergency number at (626) 744-4241 (after-hours), or you may report information anonymously at crimestoppers.com (insert key word Pasadena).
