By LESLIE EIKLEBERRY
Salina Post
GYPSUM - A Gypsum man was arrested on multiple requested charges, including kidnapping and aggravated battery after an incident Friday afternoon that ended in Park City.
Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan said this morning that Theodore Clovis Meadows, Jr., 46, of Gypsum, and a 35-year-old rural Saline County woman were at Meadows' residence in Gypsum Friday afternoon when Meadows said he wanted to go to Wichita. The woman said she didn't want to go, so Meadows allegedly told her that they should go to the pop machine in downtown Gypsum to get something to drink and discuss the trip. The woman agreed, but Meadows didn't stop his 2005 Ford F150 in downtown Gypsum and instead headed south to Canton.
On their way out of Saline County, the woman managed to get out of the pickup and was running through a field, however Meadows allegedly chased her with the pickup and allegedly struck her with the pickup door, Soldan said. Meadows also allegedly struck the woman inside the pickup.
In Canton, a stop was made at the Casey's convenience store so the woman could get something to drink. Soldan said that while the woman was inside, she left a note that she was being kidnapped. The store clerk who found the note was able to get a good description of the pickup, and Meadows was apprehended at a gas station in Park City at approximately 6:30 p.m. Friday, Soldan said.
Meadows was arrested on the following requested charges, Soldan said.
●Kidnapping
●Aggravated battery
●Battery