Man Charged with Kidnapping

A Jamestown man is in jail after police drove up on an attempted kidnapping early Saturday morning.

24-year-old Jeremy Smathers is charged with kidnapping after allegedly grabbing a 21-year-old woman as she was walking to work. He allegedly held her arm and kept a gun pointed at her side for about 15 minutes while taking her in different directions.

When the woman saw a police car she ran toward it screaming for help and saying the man had a gun.

Jamestown police, along with Ellicott and Lakewood-Busti police, state troopers and sheriff's deputies secured a perimeter in the wooded area between West Second and West Third Streets.

They found Smathers about 10 minutes later and took him to the city jail.

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