Report of woman being dragged into SUV investigated

Local sheriff’s deputies began investigating reports made by staffers at a Valencia grocery store who called 911 late Friday afternoon to report seeing a woman dragged screaming into a Chevy Suburban.

The incident as reported to deputies with the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station happened shortly after 4 p.m. in the parking lot at Albertsons on 23800 block of Copper Hill Road at Avenida Rancho Tesoro.

Two hours after receiving the call, deputies were unable to confirm the incident was a kidnapping.

“There was no confirmed kidnapping,” Shirley Miller, spokeswoman for the SCV Sheriff’s Station said. “Someone reported they saw a woman in a car who started to get out, but then looked like she was ‘pulled back in,’ possibly having an argument.”

Deputies responded to the area, she added. “They received a partial description of the car but were unable to locate,” Miller said.

When asked if staffers at the store called sheriff’s deputies to report a woman seen being dragged screaming into a Chevy Suburban, a man who store staffers identified as he store manager said: “Yes.”

Deputies began looking for the SUV, last seen traveling south on McBean Parkway.

The only description given to deputies of the suspect was a man in his 40s, with brown hair, wearing a blue and black checkered shirt.

The woman was described as wearing a white shirt.

Store staffers supplied deputies with a partial license plate of the SUV.