No report of kidnap at school

Cathy Scott

Friday, March 29, 1996 | 11:59 a.m.

School and police officials have no clues as to the identity of a girl or woman who was forced into a pickup truck at Cimarron Memorial High School.

"No parent called and said, 'My child didn't come home,'" Principal Ken Bedrosian said. "Without (such a call) we haven't been able to draw any conclusion."

School police and administrators were keeping their ears open, he said.

"It could have been a lover's quarrel between two kids," Bedrosian speculated. "Maybe they kissed and made up. At this time we don't have any reason to believe that anything serious took place."

Patrol officers tried to locate the truck and victim but were not successful, Metro Police said.

Two witnesses reported seeing a dark-haired female screaming and forced into a pickup about 10 a.m. Wednesday from the south parking lot of the campus, at 2301 S. Tenaya Way, police said.

Clark County School Police Officer Ken Young said all he knew from two adult witnesses was that "there was some loud shouting and screaming."

Witnesses told police that the pickup, a newer model white Dodge with chrome bumpers driven by a black or Hispanic male adult, may have had a business logo on its passenger side. It was last seen heading south on Tenaya.

Two adults, one a parent, were on the campus at the time of the incident and reported it to police, Bedrosian said.