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Police still looking for kidnapping suspect
Lodi police investigators watched a videotape of the apparent kidnapping of a woman who was recently hired at Blue Shield on Guild Avenue.
Officers had no new leads Tuesday afternoon in connection with the Monday morning abduction, Officer Dale Eubanks said.
Officers chased a car driven by someone believed to be James Douglas, 20, throughout Stockton on Monday, thanks to a GPS system and cooperation by T-Mobile, which kept police updated on the location of the woman's cell phone, Eubanks said.
T-Mobile and the GPS system led Eubanks and other officers to the woman's apartment complex at 6465 N. West Lane, south of Hammer Lane.
Eubanks said he found her car, and someone there told him which apartment the woman could be found at. He had hoped to find Douglas and the woman, but Douglas left on foot about 10 minutes before officers arrived. Eubanks then got the woman's side of the story.
Douglas is reportedly a transient from Stockton, Tracy and Oakland.
Hispanics make up two-thirds of Valley children
Figures newly released by the U.S. Census Bureau show that nearly two-thirds of all children living in the San Joaquin Valley are Hispanic.
The figures show that Hispanics make up 48 percent of Fresno County's overall population and 60 percent of children younger than age 10.
While immigration accounts for some of the gain, those who study the Valley's changing demographics say that Hispanic women are having children at a rate one-third higher than non-Hispanic white women.
According to the newly released data, 31 percent of Fresno County residents and 25 percent of San Joaquin County residents speak Spanish at home. Nationally nearly 20 percent of U.S. residents speak a language other than English at home.
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