Cops catch Kettering abduction suspect

KETTERING, Ohio (WDTN) - The suspect in a Kettering assault and abduction was arrested Monday night.

Joseph M. Budz, 49, of Dayton, is accused of abducting a woman Saturday night in the Big Lots parking lot on Wilmington Pike.

The woman told police she was inside her car when a man got in the car and assaulted her. She said he then drove her car to an apartment complex on Bobbie Place where he got out and ran off.

A Kettering patrol officer said he stopped Budz jaywalking Monday night on East Dorothy Lane near Bobbie Place. The officer noticed Budz had a freshly shaved head and face, and looked like the artist's sketching of the suspect from the assault.

Budz had an outstanding warrant from a previous arrest and was taken into custody.  

A positive identification was made on Budz and he was booked into the Kettering Jail on charges of kidnapping, gross sexual imposition and felony theft.