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NORTH MIAMI, Fla. — North Miami constabulary confirmed Saturday the apprehension of 30-year-old Matthew Duchatelier successful transportation with an attempted kidnapping that shocked a section teen and the Miami-Dade community.
Authotities said Duchatelier, who has a anterior apprehension connected accusations of molesting a teenage girl, was taken into custody.
Speaking exclusively to Local 10 News, a teenage witnesser said she saw a operator trailing her neighbor, a young miss successful North Miami, astir 4 p.m. Thursday.
Police said Duchatelier reportedly stopped his car adjacent Northeast 135th Street and 10th Avenue, got out, and rushed toward the girl.
“She grabbed a gross to unfastened it, and helium ran towards her and grabbed her,” a teenage witnesser told Local 10’s Rosh Lowe. The miss fought back, yelling “Help! Help! Help!” and managed to escape, sitting connected the crushed and crying portion the teen comforted her.
Detectives said Duchatelier has a past of intersexual offenses.
In October 2024, constabulary said helium was arrested aft allegedly molesting a 13-year-old miss wrong a T.J. Maxx connected Biscayne Boulevard.
They said surveillance footage showed him pinch the girl’s bosom successful the artifact conception earlier fleeing successful a Toyota Corolla.
Duchatelier was aboriginal spotted astatine a adjacent Burger King successful the aforesaid car and wearing the aforesaid covering seen successful the video.
He initially denied the allegations but aboriginal claimed helium did not retrieve the incident, according to investigators.
Jail records amusement Duchatelier is facing 1 number of attempted kidnapping of a kid nether the property of 13.
As of Saturday, helium is being held without enslaved astatine the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.
The North Miami Police Department is starring the probe and is searching for surveillance footage to find whether Duchatelier whitethorn person targeted further victims.
Detectives asked anyone with accusation to interaction Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers astatine 305-471-8477.
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