A kidnapped 13-year-old woman has been rescued in California after holding up a handwritten notice in her captor's parked automotive saying "Help Me!".

A Good Samaritan noticed the younger woman waving the crumpled piece of paper within the metropolis of Long Beach on 9 July and instantly known as 911.

Police then arrested a 61-year-old suspect, Steven Robert Sablan, who's going through kidnapping and different expenses.

The car had been within the automotive park of a laundrette which the alleged captor was utilizing on the time, studies stated.

The woman, who was seized from Texas three days earlier and pushed to Long Beach, was believed to have been taken contained in the premises by him at one level earlier than the rescue.

Touch Vong, who works at Easy Wash Laundromat, informed NBC News she had a foul feeling when she noticed the person with the kid.

"He looked down at me," stated Ms Vong, who described the person as scary and instantly thought one thing was not proper.

She stated the lady who known as the police was a buyer of hers who informed her the woman wanted assist.

Victim was 'visibly emotional and distressed'

Officers responded and located the "visibly emotional and distressed girl".

Ms Vong added: "I'm shocked, but happy because the police rescued her. I just want her and her family now to be happy and safe."

The sufferer had been taken close to a bus cease in San Antonio, Texas, on 6 July.

The suspect approached her in a car, pointed a gun at her and demanded she received in, in line with police.

Officers additionally stated the woman was sexually assaulted whereas she was taken to California they usually discovered a duplicate firearm within the car.

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Sablan was indicted on Thursday on expenses of kidnapping and transportation of a minor with intent to interact in prison sexual exercise, stated the US lawyer's workplace in Los Angeles.

The suspect, of Cleburne, Texas, was being held on the federal Metropolitan Detention Centre in Los Angeles.

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