A man who allegedly kidnapped a Florida couple and their teenage daughter at gunpoint has been arrested in Virginia, police said.
Jaddier T. Sanchez, an ex-felon who has “ATM” tattooed across his neck, was taken into custody early Monday in Alexandria, Virginia — more than 1,000 miles from where Florida cops say he kidnapped 18-year-old Nicole Martinez and her parents early Sunday in Pembroke Pines.
Martinez was taken to a hospital with minor injuries, Pembroke Pines police said.
Martinez’s parents told police early Sunday they were kidnapped by Sanchez, 37, as they returned to their home with their daughter.
Sanchez forced all three into the family’s 2007 red Dodge Ram pickup truck and drove them to nearby banks to withdraw money from ATMs, police said.
Martinez’s parents said Sanchez later left them on the side of the road in Belle Glade in Palm Beach County — some 60 miles away — but kept their daughter against her will, police said.
Detectives have determined Martinez and Sanchez had a “romantic relationship,” but the extent of their connection and how they met was immediately unclear, a police spokesman confirmed to The Post.
“This incident remains under investigation,” police also said in a statement Monday.
Attempts to reach the teen’s parents were unsuccessful, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported.
Sanchez, of West Palm Beach, has a long criminal history, including convictions for aggravated stalking, domestic battery and violating a domestic violence restraining order, the Miami Herald reported.
Sanchez was released from prison last May after 14 years behind bars for a robbery conviction, the newspaper reported, citing online records. He also served nearly nine months in 2003-04 for burglary of an occupied structure and aggravated stalking with a credible threat, the newspaper reported.
The man known to some as “King Flaco” was also found guilty of domestic battery and violating a domestic violence restraining order in Palm Beach County between those convictions, according to the Herald.
Sanchez is also facing allegations in a separate incident from November of being a hit-and-run driver, driving with an expired license, trespassing and resisting an officer without violence, the Herald reported.
