Any person who by means of force, violence, intimidation, fraud or deceit abducts or detains and hides another person depriving him/her of his/her freedom shall incur a second degree felony.\nWhen the victim is abducted from the location he/she is at and is removed from it, the removal of the victim must be for a substantial time or distance and not merely incidental to the commission of another offense.\nHistory —June 18, 2004, No. 149, § 169; Sept. 16, 2004, No. 338, § 5, eff. May 1, 2005.
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