FL: Armed Father Stops Planned Kidnap of 17-yr-old Daughter

The quartet of would-be kidnappers’ plans started to go awry when the girl saw the barrels and simply drove around them, police said. She also called her 51-year-old father to tell him about the roadblocks.

A short time later, around 10:30 p.m., the father heard dogs barking and a car door slam. Floodlights were activated as well, according to the sheriff’s office, so the father armed himself with a gun to go investigate.

What he found, the sheriff’s office said, was someone trying to break into his garage.

“He fired three shots and the intruders fled into the woods,” the sheriff's office said.

The sheriff’s office said their plan had been to kidnap the girl, then overpower her father to rob the home.

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