
Inset: Raymar Fraser (Broward County Jail). Background: Fraser allegedly kidnapped a girl outside a Florida thrift store (WSVN).
A Florida man is accused of kidnapping a 16-year-old girl in a thrift store parking lot, forcing her into his car and preventing her from leaving — and it was all allegedly caught on video.
Raymar Fraser, 41, faces charges of kidnapping, interfering with the custody of a minor and battery.
According to a probable cause arrest affidavit, the girl told deputies with the Broward County Sheriff's Office that around 10 a.m. Sunday she was outside a thrift store waiting for it to open when a man she didn't know pulled up in his car. She said the man, later identified as Fraser, began "flirting" with her and asked her age, deputies wrote.
The girl "definitively" told Fraser that she was 16, but that didn't seem to deter him, the affidavit stated. Fraser allegedly asked if she wanted to have breakfast with him and if she had "ever been with an older man before," cops wrote.
Authorities said Fraser gave the girl his phone number and allegedly "escorted her by her waist" to his car and told her to get inside.
Fraser allegedly got into the passenger seat and pulled the "nervous and apprehensive" girl down on his lap "as an embrace." He asked to kiss her and she said no, cops said, but he allegedly did so anyway.
The defendant got out of the passenger seat, closed the door with the victim inside and got into the driver's seat, per police. The girl could not exit the car and Fraser allegedly told her not to open the door.
He drove her to a nearby 7-Eleven. The girl's mother, tracking her on their Life360 app, saw her daughter's location moving and called to ask what was happening. The girl seemed to be under "extreme stress" and said she "could not talk," the affidavit said.
After they arrived at the 7-Eleven, the girl got out of the vehicle and tried to walk away, but Fraser allegedly "grabbed her by the wrist and once again now pushed her in the front passenger seat." Fraser allegedly forced a kiss on her again, cops said. Her mother continued to call, and the victim answered and told her mom she was in the car with someone she didn't know.
The mother told her daughter to "get out of the vehicle immediately." The victim asked Fraser to stop the car and drop her off. Fraser "became nervous and quickly stopped the vehicle." She got out of the car and her mother picked her up before calling police.
Cops used the Life360 app to track the victim's movements and found some surveillance video near the thrift store that showed Fraser escorting the girl into his car.
Local NBC affiliate WTVJ spoke with John Lundy, owner of the Wall2Wall Grillz jewelry store whose surveillance cameras captured the incident. Lundy said it was clear to him after watching the video that the girl "did not know what was going on."
"The situation was very sad," he told the TV station. "At first I did not know what was happening until the detective came, rang the doorbell, and told me what the situation was and how important it was to see the footage to capture the guy."
Cops identified Fraser as the suspect and called him on the phone. Fraser allegedly uttered, "Is she ok?" and "It's not illegal to pick someone up." Fraser later admitted he pursued the victim even after she told him her age, cops said.
Fraser was arrested and taken to the Broward County Jail, where he remains without bond.
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