Bail bondsman helps police catch teenage kidnapping suspects

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A Florida bail bondsman was in the right place to help stop three teenagers accused of kidnapping a man from the parking garage of a Tampa condominium complex.

Rod Fisher, the proprietor of Fisher Bail Bonds, was returning from a court date Monday afternoon when he saw a man in a shirt and tie stumble out of a car carrying a gun, the Tampa Bay Times reported. Two others got out of the car before ducking back inside and taking off.

Fisher called 911 and followed the speeding car, not knowing that the man was a victim of a foiled kidnapping.

“I don’t know what I’ve got here,” Fisher told the 911 operator. “But it looks like a carjacking.”

According to police, the victim had wrestled the gun from the teenage abductors moments earlier.

“He’s sitting there with a shirt and tie on,” Fisher said. “This guy looked like a regular guy.”

Police said the victim, 26-year-old Adhemar Perez, was getting out of his car earlier that afternoon in the parking garage at the Quarter at Ybor, when he was approached by teenagers, who demanded cash and an iPhone from him at gunpoint.