SELIGMAN, AZ (KNXV) — An Arizona woman is safe after being kidnapped from a car dealership and driven to the Las Vegas area.
According to the Yavapai County Sheriff's Office, a woman was reported missing by her mother on Tuesday and named 41-year-old Jacob Wilhoit as a person of interest. Investigators said he abducted the victim from a car dealership in the Phoenix area on Monday morning while wearing a wig and pretending to be an Uber driver.
He reportedly restrained her as they drove to Las Vegas and spent the night at a park near Lake Mead.
Authorities said the pair stopped at a Chevron store in Seligman on Tuesday night. That's where the woman passed a note to another customer saying she had been kidnapped. The woman reportedly wrote her name, a description of the vehicle she was in, a phone number and their destinations, along with a plea to call 911.
On Thursday, the Sheriff's Office released a photo of the actual note:
The customer called for help and gave authorities a description of the woman and Wilhoit as well as the direction they were traveling. Deputies and Arizona Department of Public Safety troopers located the vehicle along I-40.
Officials detained Wilhoit at the scene and also recovered multiple firearms from his vehicle. He is facing multiple charges including harassment, threatening, and intimidating, aggravated assault, unlawful imprisonment, and kidnapping.
