A missing 10-year-old New Iberia girl has been found safe after two sanitation workers IDed the kidnapper’s car thanks to an Amber Alert that went out overnight.
State Police put out the Amber Alert for a gray Nissan sedan and Dion Merrick says when he and his coworker saw the vehicle in St. Martin Parish they blocked it in and called 9-1-1.
“Look what I did to that truck, I blocked the truck in to make sure it couldn’t get out,” said Merrick.
The Amber Alert mentioned 33-year-old Michael Sereal. He is a registered sex offender, first convicted in 2006 of carnal knowledge of a juvenile.
The vehicle had driven a few dozen yards off the side of a road and was sitting back past some marsh. Merrick said it looked very suspicious.
“Man, something told me burg, something told me. I said, what’s that car doing ducked off way out in the field like that? Guess what? That’s the dude with the little girl,” said Merrick.
Merrick and his coworker, so far identified only as Brandon, filmed a Facebook Live Video at the scene as the suspect was dragged away by police.
Merrick said when stuff goes wrong like this and you see something, say something.
“People act like they see stuff but they don’t want to say nothing, man look, the car is right there and the little girl is safe right now,” said Merrick.
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