SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A teenage girl in Utah was kidnapped, drugged and raped when a man on parole for attempted murder forced her into his car while she was walking home, authorities said Tuesday.
The suspect dropped the 15-year-old off at a bus stop near her school Monday after the attack, allowing her to run away and contact police, according to a probable cause statement.
Surveillance video obtained by police showed the girl getting into the car near Hunter High School in the Salt Lake City suburb of West Valley City.
The girl told police the man had threatened to kill her with a knife.
The suspect, Creed Cole Lujan, 43, has been booked on suspicion of eight counts, including kidnapping, rape and assault.
He does not have an attorney listed and has not yet been formally charged. Authorities are requesting that bail be set at $250,000.
Lujan went to prison in 2009 after pleading guilty to attempted murder in an incident the year before in which was accused of pulling a woman into a hotel room and choking her until she was unconscious, according to online court records and the probable cause statement. He was paroled in 2015.
The student in the attack Monday was found by her friends close to her school after being dropped at the bus stop, according to the Granite School District.
Hunter High School officials said on social media that extra police officers would be on campus Tuesday and urged parents to review safety precautions with their children for walking to and from school.
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