A 37-year-old man was charged with kidnapping and sexual battery after allegedly forcing a teenage girl out of a San Francisco subway station and into a car.
The victim was heading into the Powell Street station downtown when she was abducted, Bay Area Rapid Transit Police Chief Kevin Franklin told CKPIX-TV.
Police were called about the incident around 8 p.m. Tuesday and it was confirmed by witnesses and surveillance video, according to a BART statement.
The girl's parents also reported her missing a short time later.
San Francisco police arrested Jamall Ali Blue around 3 a.m. Wednesday and the teen was also found early Wednesday and turned over to juvenile authorities.
The girl and Blue "likely knew each other," and she isn't believed to have been targeted at random, Franklin told KPIX.
Blue waived arraignment on Friday and was being held without bail after prosecutors said they sought to have him locked up pending trial as a risk to public safety.
He's due in court again on July 25.
The girl's kidnapping marked the second serious incident at the Powell Street station in as many weeks, according to the SFGate website.
It followed the fatal shoving of a 74-year-old woman who hit her head on a train and fell onto the platform on July 1, SFGate reported at the time.
Trevor Belmont, aka Hoak Taing, 49, was charged with murder and inflicting injury on an elder or dependent adult in that case.
He's being held without bail in a jail ward at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.
