Girl escapes after abduction attempt, police say

CHESAPEAKE

A Portsmouth man on the state’s sex offender registry was arrested Thursday on allegations he grabbed a 15-year-old girl walking down a street and drove her to Portsmouth, where she escaped, police said.

The suspect, Christopher Scott Little, 33, was arrested at a traffic stop in Chesapeake after the girl told authorities what happened.

Little was a “total stranger” to the victim, said Officer Dorienne Boykin, a Chesapeake police department spokeswoman. “She did not know him.”

The abduction happened at 12:30 p.m. in the 1700 block of Dock Landing Road in Chesapeake. A man in a white Ford pickup pulled in a driveway, grabbed the girl and drove her to Portsmouth, police said. There, she got out when he stopped the truck. Police did not provide the location to which he took her.

He ran after the girl and tried to force her back into the pickup, but she escaped and found a deputy sheriff who notified Portsmouth police.

Portsmouth police gave Chesapeake police descriptions of the suspect and vehicle and a plate number, and Chesapeake police traced the pickup to an address in the 4100 block of Maple Street. Officers spotted a man driving down Maple Street in the truck and arrested Little, the driver, after the girl identified him. She was not physically harmed, police said.

Little was being held without bond in the Chesapeake jail on a charge of abduction by force.

He was convicted in January 2007 in Hanover County on two counts of carnal knowledge of a child, according to the Virginia State Police sex offender registry. HIs address is listed in the registry as 709 Finchley Road in Portsmouth.

Patrick Wilson, (757) 446-2957, patrick.wilson@pilotonline.com