The State - News from Feb. 6, 1989

Police in Union City sought a man who attempted to kidnap a 14-year-old girl as she twirled her baton in an apartment complex parking lot. Alecia Christopherson managed to free herself by using self-defense moves and ran to her parents’ nearby apartment, police said. Police reported no leads on the identity of the man. The incident further fueled fears in the Bay Area, where three girls have disappeared in the last eight months in a 40-mile radius in the East Bay. However, police said there was no immediate evidence linking the Union City attack to the other cases. Still, the description given by Alecia was in some ways similar to descriptions of the kidnaper of Michaela Garecht. She was abducted in broad daylight in front of a Hayward grocery store Nov. 19.