A prisoner transport driver is facing kidnapping charges after he stopped midway with a van full of prisoners, police said.
Joshua James Pinquet, 21, allegedly texted his resignation to his boss around 9 a.m. Tuesday while driving four inmates through North Carolina en route to Florida, the Iredell County Sheriff’s Office said.
The unnamed prisoner transport company was hired by various law enforcement agencies across the country to transport prisoners to and from various detention centers.
Joshua James Pinquet was charged with kidnapping for allegedly refusing to hand over a van full of prisoners.
In a series of messages, Pinquet asserted that he “refused to stop at his intended destination with the prisoners” in Hickory, NC, a town 60 miles northwest of Charlotte.
Along with four prisoners locked in the cargo area, a colleague of the transport company was trapped in the van as Pinquet allegedly suffered a crisis.
Deputies easily stopped Pinquet on Interstate 40 outside of Hickory and secured the four inmates.
The van containing the four inmates was intercepted on the highway outside Hickory, NC, where Pinquet refused to stop. Tribune News Service via Getty Images
The inmates were handed over to other employees of the transportation company and continued to their destination in Florida, the sheriff’s office said.
Pinquet is charged with five counts of second-degree felony kidnapping and felony robbery by an employee.
He is being held without bond at the Iredell County Detention Center.
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