ATM photo identified Howland soldier’s kidnappers
By Ed Runyan
WARREN
Within one day of the Jan. 20 kidnapping of a 29-year-old soldier by two men who drove him to two ATMs to get cash, Howland police had identified both suspects through an ATM photo.
The photo taken of suspects Daniel D. Boone Jr., 24, of Risher Road in Leavittsburg, and Juan D. Jordan, 23, of Union Street Southwest, is one of the clearest surveillance photos Detective Jeff Edmundson of the Howland Police Department has seen.
“They might as well have left their driver’s licenses behind, it was so clear,” Edmondson said of the image from Chase Bank in front of Eastwood Mall.
Edmundson took the photo to the Trumbull County jail, where corrections officers identified the men. Arrest warrants were issued the same day.
Both men had been arrested several times.
Boone, who also has a North Tyrell Road address in Vienna, already was waiting in the jail, having been picked up by Warren police later the same night as the kidnapping and robbery. He was wearing the same clothes as the suspect in the ATM photo, Edmundson said.
Boone was arrested on a probation violation late Jan. 20 at the BP gas station across Laird Avenue from ValleyCare Trumbull Memorial Hospital after hospital officials said Boone had walked out of the emergency room with an IV port still in his hand.
Information on why he was at the hospital was not available.
Jordan turned himself in to authorities Friday after U.S. marshals had gone looking for him as a result of the warrant, Edmundson said.
Boone and Jordan are in the county jail in lieu of $1 million bond and have a second hearing in Warren Municipal Court at 1:30 p.m. Thursday.
The victim, formerly of Jeanette Drive in Howland, had been stationed at the 910th Airlift Wing of the Youngstown Air Reserve Station but recently relocated to Pennslvania, Edmundson said.
He told police two men waved him down at the corner of North Road and Adrian Drive at 6 p.m., then ordered him into the front passenger seat of his car and took his phone, wallet and bank cards.
They used his card and PIN to withdraw $400 from the Chase ATM in Niles, then headed to the Huntington ATM on Main Avenue Southwest, where the victim fled from the car and got help at the Burger King across the street.
His car was recovered two days later in Niles.