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Dad uses teen's cellphone data to rescue her after she is forced into truck at knifepoint, police say
CBS ^ | December 27, 2025 | Kerry Breen

Posted on 12/29/2025 10:29:51 AM PST by xxqqzz

A Texas teenager was rescued by her father after she was forced into a truck at knifepoint on Christmas Day, police said.

Patrol deputies with the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office were called to an area home at about 4:50 p.m. on Thursday, the agency said on social media. The officers were told that the teenager, 15, had taken her dog out for a walk but had not returned. Her father then used parental controls to track her phone's location and find it in a "secluded, partially wooded area" about two miles away.

The sheriff's office said the father, who has not been identified, traveled to the site and found his daughter and her dog inside a maroon-colored pickup truck, along with a "partially nude" man. The father helped the teen escape and brought her back home, where they called the sheriff's office.

Investigators determined that the male suspect had threatened the teenager with a knife. Witness descriptions allowed police to identify the suspect's vehicle and identify the driver as Giovanni Rosales Espinoza, 23.

Espinoza was taken into custody without incident, the sheriff's office said. He has been charged with aggravated kidnapping and indecency with a child. He is being held in the Montgomery County Jail with no bond, the sheriff's office said. An investigation is ongoing.

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1 posted on 12/29/2025 10:29:51 AM PST by xxqqzz
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To: xxqqzz

Espinoza Is lucky to be alive.


2 posted on 12/29/2025 10:37:17 AM PST by iamgalt
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To: iamgalt

Yep… very lucky


3 posted on 12/29/2025 10:39:34 AM PST by kjam22
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To: xxqqzz

I’m starting to think this 15 y/o girl was a willing ‘kidnapping’ victim. Her dog went for the ride too.
Might be time to have a private talk with this teenager.
Some kids are impulsive, short term thinkers and don’t even consider all the worry their actions will cause their family.


4 posted on 12/29/2025 10:41:08 AM PST by lee martell
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I am sure they are keeping that concept in mind as they investigate.


5 posted on 12/29/2025 10:52:05 AM PST by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est.)
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To: xxqqzz

Giovanni Rosales Espinoza, 23.


Sounds like another one of those darling migrants who are innocent as apple pie that Biden and his cronies brought in


6 posted on 12/29/2025 10:57:10 AM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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Sound like another Illegal Alien Invader out to rape and pillage America as his new “better life”. If I was dad, I would have strung the boy up.


7 posted on 12/29/2025 11:03:21 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (MAGAism is the greatest CURE for DemonRAT "Demockrazy". )
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To: xxqqzz

I was thinking that he should have called the Sheriff’s department before he followed his daughters phone locations.


8 posted on 12/29/2025 11:04:37 AM PST by Parley Baer
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To: xxqqzz

No children at home but we use Life360 app.


9 posted on 12/29/2025 11:07:00 AM PST by TexasGator
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I am so glad the national news is broadcasting it so future kidnappers/traffickers will ensure no cell phones with victims.

/sarc


10 posted on 12/29/2025 11:12:38 AM PST by BipolarBob (These violent delights have violent ends.)
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To: lee martell

“Investigators determined that the male suspect had threatened the teenager with a knife.”

I’m thinking the investigators know more than you.


11 posted on 12/29/2025 11:40:47 AM PST by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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To: Parley Baer

Or he could have called the sherrif’s office to report he killed someone in self defense.


12 posted on 12/29/2025 11:43:04 AM PST by xxqqzz
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Another foreign rapist. Make it stop.


13 posted on 12/29/2025 12:05:17 PM PST by toddausauras (47 47 47 )
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To: rlmorel

I think that would explain why Espinoza is still alive.


14 posted on 12/29/2025 12:13:25 PM PST by iamgalt
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To: Parley Baer

He may well have called in a report earlier.
Then called again later with an update & details on the perp.


15 posted on 12/29/2025 12:21:08 PM PST by citizen (A transgender malel competing against women may be male, but he's no man.)
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To: xxqqzz
From Breitbart:

DHS: Obama-Era Salvadoran Migrant Kidnapped Texas Girl on Christmas Day


16 posted on 12/29/2025 12:51:50 PM PST by BeauBo
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HE NEEDS TO BE HELD WITH NO BOND & NO PENIS


17 posted on 12/29/2025 2:33:22 PM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: iamgalt

“ Espinoza Is lucky to be alive.”
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In Texas? Hell, it’s a miracle he’s alive.


18 posted on 12/29/2025 2:43:53 PM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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To: lee martell

I’m starting to think this 15 y/o girl was a willing ‘kidnapping’ victim.
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Really? Based upon what exactly?


19 posted on 12/29/2025 2:46:54 PM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX)
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