4 Teens Charged In Bucks County Kidnapping: Police

PERKASIE, PA — Four people between the ages of 17 and 19 are accused of kidnapping a man in Sellersville, police said. They will be charged as adults, according to a Friday news release.

The Upper Merion Police Department contacted the Perkasie Borough Police Department on the morning of April 2 to say officers had recovered a kidnapping and robbery victim. The crime originated in Sellersville, police said in the news release.

The man had driven to Sellersville to meet up with a friend, he told detectives in an interview. When he arrived, she was accompanied by another woman and two men.

Police said the man's arms were bound with duct tape. He was then driven against his will in his own car to several places including Philadelphia and New Jersey, police said.

The man told police that his captors were armed with a knife and a handgun.

He was able to escape from the car at a convenience store in the King of Prussia area and call the police, the news release said. Authorities then recovered his car and reported finding a knife and duct tape inside.

After a ten-day investigation, police announced that four people would be charged as adults — two of whom are under 18.

Police are charging a 17-year-old Sellersville woman, a 17-year-old King of Prussia man, 19-year-old Julia Napoli of Quakertown, and 19-year-old Jordan Emmons of Northampton with kidnapping, robbery, theft, receiving stolen property, unlawful restraint, terroristic threats, false imprisonment, and simple assault.

The underage people were arraigned on the charges and sent to the Bucks County Juvenile Detention Center in lieu of $500,000 bail. Napoli was arraigned and sent to Bucks County Correction Center in lieu of $500,000 bail, police said.

The Perkasie Borough Police Department, Upper Merion Police Department, Quakertown Borough Police Department, Richland Township Police Department, Northampton Borough Police Department, Radnor Township Police Department, and the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office all worked on the case.

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