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Court docs: OSU student admits to abducting Newport hotel employee


Booking photo for Cedar Haddad from the Lincoln County Jail
Booking photo for Cedar Haddad from the Lincoln County Jail
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NEWPORT, Ore. – Police say a 19-year-old Oregon State University student admitted to forcibly taking a woman from a Newport hotel over the weekend.

Cedar A. Haddad, 19, is booked into the Lincoln County Jail on two counts of kidnapping (first and second-degree), hindering prosecution, and menacing.

According to a probable cause document, Haddad walked into the Inn at Nye Beach just before 3 a.m. Saturday and pointed a realistic replica handgun at an employee.

In a police interview on Wednesday, Haddad told detectives “he wanted to point a gun at a person to put them in fear,” court documents show.

Haddad is then accused of telling the employee to come with him, handcuffing her, and putting her in his car.

They drove around for more than an hour, police said, to South Beach State Park and Seal Beach before he let her go in a southwest Newport neighborhood.

Officers released surveillance images from the hotel on Tuesday, and managed to quickly get a tip that Haddad was the suspect.

He admitted to abducting the woman from the inn during a police interview on Wednesday, the probable cause affidavit states.

A neighbor who spoke to KATU and wanted to remain anonymous said she saw undercover police officers at the Corvallis apartment where he lived. She says she knew of Haddad, and said he was generally nice when she saw him in passing.

"I’m completely shocked," she said. "I would have never expected him to commit a crime, let alone something of that magnitude."

Haddad is being held in the Lincoln County Jail on $1,000,000 bail. His next court appearance is scheduled for June 7.

According to the Oregon State University student directory, Haddad was registered as a student in the electrical/computer-engineering department.

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