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CNN Live At Daybreak

Beach Abduction: Florida Teens Taken

Aired September 10, 2002 - 06:15   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Miami Police are searching for three teenage girls abducted on a beach last night. The girls were meeting a friend when they were taken away at gunpoint.
Michelle King (ph) of our Miami affiliate WSVN has more.

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MICHELLE KING, WSVN-TV REPORTER (voice-over): Helicopter spotlights overhead, police cruisers on the ground, the statewide search is on for two stolen cars and three missing teenage girls.

Pilar Beltran rushes to find her son, another victim.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Your son's here, he's OK?

PILAR BELTRAN, VICTIM'S MOTHER: Yes, he's fine...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How old's your son?

BELTRAN: Eighteen.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So he's down here meeting three girls, right?

BELTRAN: Yes.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And all of a sudden he calls you and says, mom, they pepper sprayed me and they took the three girls and...

BELTRAN: I don't know about the pepper spraying.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Did they take his car, too?

BELTRAN: Yes, they take his car.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How frightening is this for you?

BELTRAN: It's a nightmare after all that happened to that Colombian girl.

KING: That Colombian girl was Anna Maria Onhel (ph). She and her boyfriend were kidnapped while walking along Miami Beach in April. Detectives finding her body off I-95 in Boca Raton. Her boyfriend was stabbed 14 times but did survive.

Investigators say Beltran's 18-year-old son, George Beltran, seen here talking with police, came down to Virginia Keys to meet three teenage girls, one of them his girlfriend. When he got there, he was reportedly pepper sprayed. Two men pointing guns at him beat him, robbed him, stole his car, then forced the teenage girls into one of their own gold Mazdas, then drove off. Police are still looking for the cars and looking for the three teenage girls.

BILL SCHWARTZ, MIAMI POLICE: The boy was pepper sprayed. He was beaten up, kicked, has some minor cuts and bruises. Then the girls were forced at gunpoint into the Mazda and both cars sped off.

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COSTELLO: That report from Michelle King of Miami affiliate WSVN. We'll keep you posted if we get word of any more new developments.

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