Friday, September 1, 2017

Carthage man charged with kidnapping 15-year-old Texas girl, bringing her to Missouri

(From the Carthage Police Department)

On 08/31/2017 21-year-old Charles Ward Kuentzel Jr. was arrested at his residence, 520 Pine St. in Carthage, on a felony warrant out of Wheeler County, Texas for unlawful restraint for taking a 15-year-old female, missing from her home in Texas since 07/24/2017, and bringing her to Missouri. The juvenile was found and is being reunited with her family.

Charles was also charged here with kidnapping 1st degree, endangering the welfare of a child 1st Degree and fugitive from justice.

He is currently being held in the Jasper County Jail on warrants for the charges. He received a $100,000 cash or surety bond for the first two charges and a $10,000 cash only bond for the fugitive charge.

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