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Sketch Released Of Mall Parking Lot Kidnapper

A Carjacker took a woman for a wild ride when he grabbed her in broad daylight from a Kissimmee mall.

Kissimmee police have released a composite sketch of the man who carjacked and kidnapped the woman from the parking lot of the Osceola Square mall on Tuesday afternoon.

The 33-year-old victim, Angela Ritchotte, says the man got in her car on the passenger's side and demanded that she drive. She says she drove around for two hours while the man smoked drugs.

According to the victim, the suspect removed his pants and fondled himself.

"He just told her no one will get hurt if you drive, so she was in fear for her life," said Stacie Miller of the Kissimmee Police Department. "He could be capable of anything crimes like these usually escalate to something different."

The two ended up in Orlando near Gore Street and Orange Blossom Trail. She pulled up to a group of people and yelled for help and the suspect fled from her car.

Investigators said the suspect did not take anything from Ritchotte and did not harm her in anyway.

The suspect is described at a black male approximately 30-35 years of age, 5-foot-10, weighing 200 to 220 pounds. He was last seen wearing a light blue t-shirt with a “South Pole” logo on the front, dark blue jean shorts and flip flops. He is clean shaven with a clean shaven head. He has a tattoo of a cross on one of his arms with an unknown tattoo on his left calf. Both tattoos are black ink with no color.

Officers say they were able to get the man's fingerprints because he took her cell phone and made several calls.
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