The Lacey woman involved in yesterday’s suspected kidnapping is now safe, with the kidnapping suspect in custody.
The media release stated that Young Sook An knocked on the door of a resident’s home on Stedman Road SE early yesterday morning, saying her husband, Chae Kyong An, was trying to kill her, Lacey police reported in a follow-up Facebook post. Responding Thurston County Police contacted Young, who had sustained non-life-threatening injuries.
Young told police she walked for 20 to 30 minutes through the woods after Chae kidnapped her from her home and brought her to the forest. She was brought to a hospital for treatment of her injuries.
Police have taken Chae into custody after a community member found his car around 200 yards off of Steadman Road at 7:35 a.m., with county deputies and Lacey police responding immediately.
Lacey police sent out an endangered missing person alert after they responded to a call reporting “muffled screaming and sounds” at Rossberg Street SE last Sunday and finding the residence’s garage door open. The Ans’ children arrived shortly and told police that they had left 30 minutes earlier and their parents were home.
Police cleared the house and found used duct tape they believed was used on the victim.
Security footage from a neighbor showed the suspect pulling into the garage in his van and shutting the door briefly before police arrived.
Chae is charged with multiple felony domestic felony charges.
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