Crime & Safety
3 Teens Kidnapped, Brought to Kennesaw
The suspect is the grandfather of one of the teen girls.

A St. Louis man allegedly kidnapped his 16-year-old granddaughter and two other teen girls, and drove them from Missouri to the Best Western Kennesaw Inn.
The two other girls, 15 and 16, were visiting Clarence Jones Jr.'s granddaughter when he allegedly took the trio without the consent of their parents, according to a Cobb County criminal warrant. The mothers of each girl told authorities that Jones "had no authority to take her daughter to Georgia," records show.
The warrant does not spell out the motive for the alleged kidnapping.
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The Kennesaw State University Department of Public Safety arrested Jones about 2 p.m. Sunday at the hotel.
He is in the Cobb County Adult Detention Center without bond on charges that include three counts of kidnapping and three counts of interstate inteference with custody. He was also cited for defective brake lights.
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