Family of 4 Abducted in San Ysidro

A San Diego couple and their two young children were kidnaped at gunpoint early Friday by three men and forced to drive about 50 miles, then robbed and left stranded in a rural North County, police reported.

Kevin and Amicia Moore and their children, ages 2 months and 2 years, were picked up by sheriff’s deputies and returned to San Diego, where they were reported to be unharmed and in good condition, San Deigo police said.

Sgt. Arthur Palmer said police are hunting for the kidnapers, and that a statewide alert was sent out for the couple’s white, four-door 1976 Oldsmobile Cutlass sedan, license number 288 HOT.

The couple told detectives they were in front of the Frontier Motel on West Calle Primera in San Ysidro about 1:30 a.m. when a man standing beside a nearby fence offered to sell a watch to Kevin Moore.

Moore declined the offer and went to his car, which was parked in the motel’s lot, police said. Then three other men, also standing near the fence, approached the family, brandishing guns.

“The men just sat in the back seat and made the victims drive them up just shy of Highway 76” in Oceanside, Palmer said.

The kidnapers then directed Moore to drive to an isolated area in Bonsall, where they forced the family out of the car near Via Montellano, robbed them of $100 and fled in the car.