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SPARTANBURG COUNTY, S.C. — A Boiling Springs man was charged Saturday with kidnapping and two counts of assault and battery third degree.
Joshua Wayne Abbott, 30, of 920 Wesley Court allegedly kidnapped a woman in the Goodwill parking lot at the intersection of Double Bridge Road and Boiling Springs Road, according to a report from the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office.
Members of the Boiling Springs Fire Department stopped the alleged kidnapping in progress, the report stated. At about 1 p.m. Saturday, a firefighter witnessed a woman screaming for help. The firefighter pulled the fire engine behind the vehicle the woman was screaming from, according to the report. Another Boiling Springs firefighter confronted Abbott advising him to let the woman go, according to the report. The woman then ran towards the fire truck screaming, “he’s going to kill me,” according to the report.
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