A Fayette County
Grand Jury has indicted a Peachtree City man on several charges relating
what police called a plan to abduct a child from a local school.
Andrew Joseph
Magnuson, 22, was indicted last week for enticing a child for indecent
purposes, criminal attempt to commit kidnapping and violation of the Pornography
and Child Exploitation Prevention Act of 1999.
Police said
Magnuson held two boys against their will back in October after offering
to give them a ride home. He tried to lure them into his home, police
added.
The boys were
eventually let go, but not before Magnuson "described explicit sexual
acts" to the children, according to a warrant for his arrest.
Magnuson is
being held at the Fayette County Jail without bond. He was arrested near
Oak Grove Elementary School on a golf cart that matched the color of the
description given by the two boys, police said.
At the time
of the arrest, Magnuson had duct tape, a rope, bungee cords, a knife and
other items in his possession that could have been used to kidnap someone,
according to an arrest warrant.
Days before
his arrest, Magnuson was near the school attempting to solicit children
for assistance in locating a missing person using a copy of a report he
printed off the Internet, police said.
The grand jury
also indicted:
Michael Andrew
Shaffer of Jonesboro for armed robbery, failure to stop or return to the
scene of an accident and following too closely and Ricky Shane Yarbrough
of McDonough for armed robbery. Police said the two struck another vehicle
and after the driver of that vehicle stopped, they robbed her of her purse
and cell phone at gunpoint.
Karl Bryan
Hodge, an inmate already awaiting trial on murder charges at the Fayette
County Jail, for allegedly having a sock tied in a knot containing batteries
that could have been used as a weapon. He was also indicted for possession
of a drug called Metronidazole. Hodge is one of three defendants accused
of murdering a man in a separate incident which police characterized as
a drug deal gone bad.







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