Woman says she was kidnapped, raped

YOUNGSTOWN — A 19-year-old woman told police she was kidnapped while walking to a friend’s on Arlington Street on the North Side and then raped in a Liberty motel parking lot late Monday night.

The woman said the man who grabbed her at 10:30 p.m. forced her into the back seat of a black car he was driving and took her cell phone when she tried to use it. The woman said the man returned her cell phone after sexually assaulting her behind the Belmont Avenue motel and drove off. She first spoke to Liberty police and then was interviewed by a city patrolman at St. Elizabeth Health Center, where she went for a rape examination.