The Pottawatomie County Sheriff’s Office continues to pursue leads from tips received after distributing artist sketches of two suspects accused of abducting a local homeowner who interrupted them during a burglary of his rural Shawnee home. Anyone with information about the case is urged to contact authorities.
The sketches of the male and females suspects were released Wednesday after a Norman police detective completed the drawings based on suspect descriptions from the victim.
Pottawatomie County Undersheriff Dave Balleweg said that man, age 25, returned to his home in the 6800 block of Acme Road to find an unknown female in a hallway. The woman said, “Babe, somebody is here,” Balleweg said, and then a man appeared from another room with a gun.
The suspects pushed the man onto the floor and took his wallet and other valuables, then the female shoved the gun into his mouth, Balleweg said.
The suspects abducted the man from his home, wrapping his head in a blanket and placing him in the floorboard of his own vehicle. The male suspect drove him in that vehicle and the female followed in a suspect vehicle, described to be a brown “box-shaped” car, possibly a Lincoln Town Car, Balleweg said.
The suspects drove the man to the area of 45th Street and Bethel Road, where they left him.
The white male suspect was described as being about 6 feet tall, with red hair and a pointy nose, and weighing about 175 pounds.
The white female was described as being 5 feet, four inches tall, weighing about 125 pounds.
Both suspects were wearing black hooded shirts and blue jeans. The homeowner was roughed up during the ordeal, but suffered no major injuries, he said.
Anyone with information about this case or a possible identity of the suspects is asked to call the sheriff’s office, 273-1727, and ask to speak to Detective Mike Carnell.