Tuesday, October 5, 2010


Mableton man kidnapped
By Rhonda Cook
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A 35-year-old Mableton man has been missing since Sunday, when he and a woman were taken from the parking lot of a restaurant -- and police suspect foul play.

Cobb County Jail Police say Rafael Ortega Duarte, 35, of Mableton, was kidnapped Oct. 3. His Cadillac Escalade was also taken.

Police said a group of men kidnapped Rafael Ortega Duarte and the woman from a parking lot adjacent to the El Patron Mexican Restaurant. The suspects took Duarte’s black 2004 Cadillac Escalade.

The woman was dropped off in Marietta unharmed.

Duarte’s Escalade was found abandoned later that day in Cherokee County, with "signs of violence in the vehicle,â€