Dec 18, 2008 5:53 am US/Eastern
Man Charged In Alleged Bucks Co. Student Abduction
FALLS TOWNSHIP, Pa. (CBS 3) ―
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Police said John Sernia abducted two teens in Bucks County.
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A Bucks County man was arrested after he allegedly abducted two students at gunpoint outside a Bucks County elementary school.
The incident happened Monday evening outside Penn Valley Elementary School in Levittown, Pa.
John Sernia, of Levittown, has been charged with kidnapping a 14-year-old and a 15-year-old.
Police said the incident began when Sernia, 27, was looking for a teenage boy he purchased alcohol for that he was angry at. Police said Sernia forced the two uninvolved teens to locate the other teen.
"He takes out a handgun at that time, he racks a chamber into the handgun, puts a bullet into the chamber, so it's ready to fire and says 'get into the car,'" Lt. Ron MacPherson of the Falls Township Police Department said.
Once they were inside the SUV, the teens directed Sernia to the boy's house. Police said Sernia used the child-proof locks to keep one teen in the backseat and forced the other teen to knock on the front door.
The boy police said Sernia was looking for was not home. Sernia then took the teens back to the school where police said he got out of the SUV and started talking about the gun as a witness was walking by and got involved.
"He says 'what are you guys doing?' And he says 'none of your business, get out of here' and he says something about 'I wanna shoot somebody tonight' and he takes the gun and shoots it up into the air," Lt. MacPherson explained.
Police later arrested Sernia at his girlfriend's home. He has been charged with aggravated assault, terroristic threats and kidnapping.
Lt. MacPherson said the teens were not injured.
Sernia is being held on $250,000 bail.
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