JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Police in Georgia arrested a registered sex offender accused of kidnapping a Jacksonville woman and her three children.
Rasheim Dolton, 44, is being held without bond in Peach County, Georgia. He faces one count of kidnapping-hold for ransom or reward or as a shield or hostage; a second count of kidnapping-inflict bodily harm or terrorize victim or other person; and false imprisonment.
The investigation began Wednesday night on Steel Court in Jacksonville. The victim's sister called police to say the woman and her children had been kidnapped against her will and needed help. Two officers went to the victim's apartment and that's when police believe Dolton took off with the woman and children.
The woman managed to call her sister that night to say she was on her way to Tampa to hand out music fliers. But investigators learned she was actually going to Georgia. Authorities issued an alert for Dolton's car.
The Georgia State Patrol, along with the Byron Police Department stopped Dolton's car in Peach County and arrested him. Authorities say Dolton gave the GSP a false name of Luther Bernard Ogletree.
Investigators say Dolton and the woman met online about a month ago on the website, Model Mayhem. Police say Dolton, armed with a gun, came to the woman's apartment three weeks ago and threatened to kill her and her children if she told police. Somehow she managed to get a message to a friend that she was being held against her will. The friend contacted the victim's sister who then called police.
Dolton has four prior charges of kidnapping out of Tennessee, and a kidnapping charge out of Atlanta. His criminal past also includes arrests for false imprisonment, carrying a concealed firearm, and drugs.
