A 12-year-old boy jumps from a vehicle running into Florida to escape an alleged kidnapper

A 12-year-old boy is rescued from an alleged kidnapper after jumping from the moving vehicle of the man to escape, police said in Florida.

The child was treated for minor scratches on the forehead, arms and hands. The suspect, 26-year-old Timothy H. Miller, was arrested and is facing charges of kidnapping, resistance to violent arrest and negligence towards the police. children, according to an affidavit of probable cause.

The boy told police that he had got off his school bus in Boynton Beach, Florida on Wednesday, and had started walking when a man driving a white van had stopped and he had proposed to drive her. The man, later identified as Miller, told the child that he was "constantly giving children rides without worrying because he would not do anything strange," according to the affidavit.

The boy said that Miller "looked nice and had a friendly smile", so he got on the truck, but began to feel uncomfortable when Miller asked him about it. he had drugs and looked at it "strangely," says the affidavit.

The child told the police that he was scared and when he had tried to open the passenger door to go out, Miller had told him that he could not leaving and had accelerated. Police said the boy had managed to open the door and jumped from the moving vehicle. He told authorities that he had temporarily lost consciousness when his head hit the sidewalk.

Several people saw the child jump from the car and stopped to help him. Another witness followed Miller's truck and blocked the vehicle until the police arrived. Miller, of West Palm Beach, violently resisted his arrest, the authorities said, but he was eventually detained.

The police told the investigators that Miller thought the boy was between 14 and 16 years old and that he had gone to get him because he wanted to buy drugs.

"We are grateful to the good Samaritans who helped put Miller in custody," Boynton Police Department said in a Facebook post. We encourage parents to take this opportunity to remind their children that it is dangerous to get in a car with someone they do not know. "