A Minneapolis man convicted of kidnapping a woman who mistook him for her ride-share driver was sentenced to probation Monday.
Daquairus Nathaniel Black, 27, was found guilty of one count of kidnapping and one count of fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle after entering an Alford Plea on June 25.
On Monday, Black was sentenced to 717 days in prison, with credit for 717 days he had already served, and an additional one-year and 27-month sentences suspended for three years while he is on probation.
Probation means Black will not have to serve his sentence unless he violates the terms of his probation. As part of his sentence, Black will also have to pay $5,000 to the Canon Falls Police Department.
As previously reported, on August 27, 2022, at approximately 10:50 a.m., Cannon Falls Police were called to a Casey’s store because a woman was crying in the bathroom and said she had been kidnapped.
En route, police saw a person matching the suspect’s description in a parked car, the criminal complaint states. When the police chief turned around to speak to the person in the car, the car took off and a pursuit began.
According to the complaint, after the police chief located the suspect’s vehicle, the suspect’s vehicle collided with the squad near Riverside Park and the suspect’s vehicle then nearly struck a woman who was in the roadway. The suspect then sped off again and headed north on Highway 52.
The police chief drove at up to 200 km/h but was unable to catch the suspect, the complaint states. However, the driver was eventually arrested by Faribault police and the victim’s purse and identification were found inside.
The victim told police she was in Minneapolis and was at a concert with her boyfriend and other friends, but when she and her boyfriend got into an argument, she threw her phone away and walked a few blocks away from the hotel they were staying at.
She then became unsure of where she was and got into the suspect’s vehicle, believing it was a rideshare that could take her back to her vehicle in the parking garage. Instead, the man refused to let her out and drove through several towns.
The lawsuit states that the victim cannot remember all the cities they drove through, but the man repeatedly told her he would not let her out unless she had sex with him.
At one point she said she had to use the bathroom, so the man stopped at Cannon Falls Casey’s and she asked the people inside the store to call the police.
