8-year-old escapes after being abducted from home in Fresno County

Friday, January 4, 2019
An eight-year-old is home safe tonight -- after he was kidnapped right outside of his home in Fresno County.

The boy was playing by himself by a canal near Peach and Nebraska Wednesday night, when he says a man grabbed him from behind, covered his eyes, and picked him up and began running.
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He then took the boy to a white pick-up truck and threw him in the bed of the truck and lowered the cover.

The truck stopped a short time later -- and the boy made a decision to try and escape.

That is when he pushed open the bed cover -- jumped out of the truck and ran in the opposite direction as the truck drove away from him.

The boy found his way back to his home without injury
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"We're lucky we're not looking for a missing child," said Tony Botti of the Fresno County Sheriff's Office.



Sheriff's deputies are now searching for the driver of a white pick-up truck with a white bed cover and tinted rear window.

If anyone has home surveillance cameras in the areas from Floral to Clovis Avenues -- you're asked to call the Sheriff's Office.
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