CORVALLIS, Ore., July 21 (UPI) -- An Oregon man who sensed something "wrong" about a Craigslist posting helped thwart a kidnap and assault plan, police say.
The Corvallis, Ore., man police identified only as "Jason" is credited with breaking the case of a woman who tried use the Web site to hire someone to kidnap and assault her estranged husband, KATU-TV, Portland, reported Tuesday.
"It was somewhat vague, but something just did not seem right about it," the man about a posting he found when he logged onto a Craigslist political forum last October.
"(I) just had a gut feeling that this was wrong and this was trouble," he said.
He contacted Corvallis police and told them about the poster, 37-year-old Mari-Teresa Price.
Police say Price used Craigslist to seek out an acquaintance, Jonathan Appelt, to assault her husband.
Appelt has not been charged with a crime, but Price is in jail accused of solicitation of kidnapping and soliciting assault and burglary, KATU reported.
"It's the kind of thing you read about, but you don't see very often," Lt. Cord Wood, spokesman for the Corvallis Police Department, said. "It's a unique kind of situation."
