An off-duty Salt Lake police officer working a part-time security job is being credited with saving a teenage girl who police say was kidnapped and in the
process of being sexually assaulted by two men.
Just after 4:30 a.m. Sunday, the officer, who was hired by Tesoro to do security at their refinery, 1600 North 1200 West, came across a parked vehicle that
was out of place, said Salt Lake police detective Jared Wihongi.
An off-duty Salt Lake police officer working a part-time security job is being credited with saving a teenage girl who police say was kidnapped and in the
process of being sexually assaulted by two men.
Just after 4:30 a.m. Sunday, the officer, who was hired by Tesoro to do security at their refinery, 1600 North 1200 West, came across a parked vehicle that
was out of place, said Salt Lake police detective Jared Wihongi.
While watching the vehicle, he spotted a girl in the backseat who mouthed the words "Help me," he said. When the officer approached the car, he
found a man in the backseat attempting to sexually assault the girl and another man trying to hide in the front seat.
The 17-year-old victim, the officer learned, was kidnapped while walking near 500 North Redwood Road. The men pulled up next to her and threatened to harm
her if she didn't get into their car, Wihongi said.
Ricardo Ruiz, 25, and Gonzalo Romero-Cacho, 36, were arrested and booked into the Salt Lake County Jail for investigation of aggravated kidnapping,
aggravated sexual assault and attempted rape.
While watching the vehicle, he spotted a girl in the backseat who mouthed the words "Help me," he said. When the officer approached the car, he
found a man in the backseat attempting to sexually assault the girl and another man trying to hide in the front seat.
The 17-year-old victim, the officer learned, was kidnapped while walking near 500 North Redwood Road. The men pulled up next to her and threatened to harm
her if she didn't get into their car, Wihongi said.
Ricardo Ruiz, 25, and Gonzalo Romero-Cacho, 36, were arrested and booked into the Salt Lake County Jail for investigation of aggravated kidnapping,
aggravated sexual assault and attempted rape.
process of being sexually assaulted by two men.
Just after 4:30 a.m. Sunday, the officer, who was hired by Tesoro to do security at their refinery, 1600 North 1200 West, came across a parked vehicle that
was out of place, said Salt Lake police detective Jared Wihongi.
An off-duty Salt Lake police officer working a part-time security job is being credited with saving a teenage girl who police say was kidnapped and in the
process of being sexually assaulted by two men.
Just after 4:30 a.m. Sunday, the officer, who was hired by Tesoro to do security at their refinery, 1600 North 1200 West, came across a parked vehicle that
was out of place, said Salt Lake police detective Jared Wihongi.
While watching the vehicle, he spotted a girl in the backseat who mouthed the words "Help me," he said. When the officer approached the car, he
found a man in the backseat attempting to sexually assault the girl and another man trying to hide in the front seat.
The 17-year-old victim, the officer learned, was kidnapped while walking near 500 North Redwood Road. The men pulled up next to her and threatened to harm
her if she didn't get into their car, Wihongi said.
Ricardo Ruiz, 25, and Gonzalo Romero-Cacho, 36, were arrested and booked into the Salt Lake County Jail for investigation of aggravated kidnapping,
aggravated sexual assault and attempted rape.
While watching the vehicle, he spotted a girl in the backseat who mouthed the words "Help me," he said. When the officer approached the car, he
found a man in the backseat attempting to sexually assault the girl and another man trying to hide in the front seat.
The 17-year-old victim, the officer learned, was kidnapped while walking near 500 North Redwood Road. The men pulled up next to her and threatened to harm
her if she didn't get into their car, Wihongi said.
Ricardo Ruiz, 25, and Gonzalo Romero-Cacho, 36, were arrested and booked into the Salt Lake County Jail for investigation of aggravated kidnapping,
aggravated sexual assault and attempted rape.
"...government programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have known it in this country until one day...we will
wake to find that we have socialism, and...one of these days we are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children, what
it once was like in America when men were free.
-Ronald Reagan/Norman Thomas
"In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem."
- President Ronald Reagan (January 20, 1981)
"We are a nation that has a government--not the other way around."
- President Ronald Reagan (January 20, 1981)
"From time to time we've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is
superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern
someone else?"
- President Ronald Reagan (January 20, 1981)
wake to find that we have socialism, and...one of these days we are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children, what
it once was like in America when men were free.
-Ronald Reagan/Norman Thomas
"In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem."
- President Ronald Reagan (January 20, 1981)
"We are a nation that has a government--not the other way around."
- President Ronald Reagan (January 20, 1981)
"From time to time we've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is
superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern
someone else?"
- President Ronald Reagan (January 20, 1981)
