Apopka police arrest kidnapping suspect

From the Apopka Police Department Public Information Office

Justin Louis James Henderson, 39, has been arrested and charged with grand theft of a motor vehicle, kidnapping, assault with intent to commit a felony, resisting an officer with violence, false identification given to law enforcement, and possession of a weapon by a convicted felon.

Justin Louis James Henderson

On Sunday at approximately 1:30 PM the Apopka Police Department received a 911 call regarding a kidnapping. The adult victim advised he was at a Lowe’s in Apopka. The victim advised that a black male named "Trap" later identified as Henderson forced him to leave his home in Apopka at gunpoint in order to go on a crime spree to replace the cell phone Henderson claimed the victim owed him. The victim stated that when he entered the Lowe’s at Henderson‘s direction to steel wire cutters, Henderson waited in the vehicle. At that time the victim called 911.

Apopka Police officers responded to the Lowe’s and observed the black Jaguar vehicle occupied by Henderson parked in front of Lowe's as the victim described.

As officers approached the suspect, Henderson rammed the police vehicle in an attempt to flee. Another officer used the tactic to pen the suspect vehicle, preventing an escape. Henderson then ran on foot, attempted to steal vehicles parked in the Lowe’s contractors entrance before subsequently being subdued with a taser.

Henderson was checked in at Florida Hospital Apopka and then transported and booked into the Orange County Jail.