NORTH LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — A North Las Vegas man is facing first-degree kidnapping, child abuse, and domestic battery charges after allegedly assaulting his girlfriend and fleeing with their 10‑month‑old daughter, threatening to kill her, and stating he intended to provoke police into killing him, according to an arrest report.
Officers were called to an apartment in the 1200 block of West Cheyenne Avenue around 1:58 a.m. on Thursday, March 5, after multiple 911 callers reported a woman screaming for help.
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Police later found the woman, who told them that her boyfriend, identified as Roderick Duke, had beaten her, taken their baby in a stroller, and warned she would “see both of them on the news” if she contacted police.
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Detectives launched emergency cell‑phone pings, activated an Amber Alert, and later confirmed through a friend and an Uber driver that Duke had taken the baby several miles away and then back to the complex, at times without a car seat and with the child unsecured in the stroller.
When officers discovered the couple’s previously unlocked apartment now locked, they formed an arrest team and took Duke into custody without incident. The baby was found unharmed and returned to her mother.
Police documented bruising and abrasions on the woman’s face and neck and noted Duke’s prior domestic-violence history.
Duke was booked into the North Las Vegas Community Correctional Center, where he is being held without bail.
He is due back in court on Tuesday.
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