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Wanted man nabbed after kidnapping local teen A Beasley man wanted by police for allegedly assaulting a Wharton couple has been arrested in Corsicana, apparently while trying to flee the state in a car he strong-armed from a 19-year-old Wharton County woman. Police said the woman was locked in the trunk during part of the ride, cut with a knife and sexually assaulted. Her mother, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told the Wharton Journal-Spectator Friday the ordeal has been a harrowing one for her daughter and her family. "We're still in that, 'We can't believe it happened' mode," she said. The family made the fourand a-half hour trip to Corsicana early Wednesday to pick up their daughter. She was released after being treated at a Corsicana hospital for cuts and bruises on her hands and arms suffered while trying to escape the confines of the trunk, her mother said. She was also treated for a knife wound. Johnson allegedly held the point of a knife against the girl's ribcage, breaking the skin, after he found she was trying to escape. The young woman had been released from the 2001 Chevrolet Malibu's trunk early Wednesday morning before Johnson picked up a friend, 26-year-old Calvin Dixon. A short time later, with Dixon behind the wheel, the car was pulled over by a Corsicana police officer for speeding. When the officer asked the young woman to identify herself, the 19-year-old said her driver's license was in the trunk, said Wharton Police Department Detective Don Falks. As she walked with the officer to the rear of the vehicle, she told him what had occurred, Falks said. Johnson and Dixon were both arrested. Officers learned Dixon had an unrelated warrant and Johnson was wanted by Wharton law enforcement officials for an incident that occurred just three days earlier. Both are reportedly being held in the Navarro County Justice Center. Police had been looking for Johnson since Sunday, when he allegedly beat an ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend with a tire iron, then stabbed the man in the stomach at a Dahlgren Street home. He fled the scene in the woman's car, leading police on a high-speed chase into Fort Bend County. He eluded officers near Beasley, where he resides. Warrants for three counts of retaliation, aggravated robbery, burglary with intent to commit aggravated assault and felony evading arrest were issued. Johnson escaped the area Tuesday afternoon in the vehicle of the 19-year-old woman, who was an acquaintance. The woman reportedly met Johnson at the home of his girlfriend in Beasley. It was there that she was reportedly forced into the trunk. The woman's mother said her daughter was not trying to help Johnson escape - at least not voluntarily. She said Johnson threatened to harm the 19- year-old's family if she didn't help him. That Corsicana police just happened to stop the car in which her daughter was being held captive was divine intervention, the woman believes. "Only the One up above can put that police officer where he was," she said. She added her daughter has been fearful of retaliation since returning home. Finding out that Johnson is still in custody has offered some relief - at least temporarily. "She wanted to know yesterday morning where he (Johnson) is," she said. "She is scared." |
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