Spring Valley

A federal grand jury indicted a 19-year-old Spring Valley man Friday on charges that he kidnaped a woman in La Mesa and took her across state lines.

Jeffrey James Miller is being transported to San Diego from Phoenix, where he waived extradition.

Assistant U.S. Atty. Joan Weber said Friday that Miller did not know Cynthia Gladen, 21, before he allegedly kidnaped her March 27 from where she worked and forced her to drive at gunpoint to Arizona.

Gladen, who was blindfolded and bound with rope part of the time, was not sexually assaulted, robbed or injured during the two-day ordeal.

Gladen was rescued after she gave a note to a woman in a gas station in Glendale, Nev., saying she had been kidnaped and giving a description of the car Miller was driving.

Arizona Highway Patrol officers found Miller’s gun was actually a pellet gun. “It looks exactly like a regular handgun,” Weber said.

Weber said Miller is on parole for a robbery conviction in Kansas.

Miller was also indicted on a charge of transportation of a stolen vehicle. If convicted, he could receive a life term and a $500,000 fine.