| Contact: |
Detective Trish Miller
541-265-4277 x0668
pmiller@co.lincoln.or.us |
| Incident: |
Kidnap & Custodial Interference |
| Date Occurred: |
Aug 22, 2010 |
| Time Occurred: |
Approximately 10:30 am |
| Location: |
Lincoln County |
On 8/20/10, Lincoln County Circuit Court placed two children, ages 6 and 9 years old, in the care and protective custody of the Department of Human Services Child Welfare. On 8/22/10, Jessica Ruth Carpenter, age 33 of Toledo, took the children to Hawaii, in violation of the court order. On 10/12/10, with the assistance of the Newport office of the Department of Human Services Child Welfare, United States Marshal's Service, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and the Maui Police Department, Carpenter and the children were located in Maui, Hawaii. Carpenter was taken into custody on Oregon warrants for the charges of (4) counts of first degree Custodial Interference and (2) counts second degree Kidnap and lodged in a Maui jail pending extradition to Oregon. The children were placed in the protective custody of Hawaii Child Protective Services and will be returned to Oregon.
