By Brian Fraga
Standard-Times staff writer
September 22, 2007 6:00 AM
NEW BEDFORD — Police arrested a city man in a bizarre kidnapping case involving a lost 14-year-old girl.
According to police reports, the girl asked the suspect, Nathaniel Miller, 45, for directions after she got lost walking on State Street late Thursday night. Mr. Miller allegedly berated the girl, accused her of stealing his money and forced her to go to his apartment, where he had her subsequently strip-searched.
New Bedford police spokesman Lt. Jeffrey Silva said the girl had just left her home after getting into a fight with her mother, and was walking to her boyfriend's house when she got lost.
After asking him for directions, Mr. Miller allegedly berated the girl for being out by herself, and ordered her to go with him to his Reynolds Street apartment, Lt. Silva said. Once there, the suspect allegedly barred the door behind him with a wood plank, and yelled at the girl, accusing her of stealing $200 from him.
The suspect then ordered the girl to take her clothes off because he thought she was hiding his money, Lt. Silva said. The girl told police she went into a room and stripped down. The suspect's wife, who was in the apartment at the time, went into the room and looked over the girl's clothes, Lt. Silva said.
Mr. Miller allegedly ordered the girl to call her mother. He then picked up the telephone, and began yelling at the girl's mother, Lt. Silva said. The suspect told the mother to meet him and the girl at the intersection of Linden and Purchase streets.
After the mother called police at 1 a.m., she and police officers went to meet the defendant. They saw him and the girl standing near the Weld Square area, Lt. Silva said.
Police officers, who approached the defendant, heard him tell the girl in a threatening tone, "She better not be saying anything bad about me." Lt. Silva said it appeared the man was referring to the girl's mother.
Mr. Miller told police he had been drinking. He was arrested, and charged with kidnapping, threats to commit a crime, assault with intent to commit a crime and intimidation of a witness. He was arraigned Friday in New Bedford District Court. The defendant's wife was not charged in connection to the alleged kidnapping.
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