San Diego
An 18-year-old man pleaded not guilty Monday to kidnaping and holding a night watchman hostage last week during a 33-hour ordeal in a Harbor Island hotel.
Randy Dolph of Colorado was ordered held in County Jail in lieu of $150,000 bail as requested by Deputy Dist. Atty. Richard Lewis.
The longest hostage-holding incident ever recorded in San Diego began Wednesday at the Travelodge Hotel when Dolph allegedly pointed a shotgun at Donald Evans, 56, of El Cajon, and held him in a room.
Dolph is also charged with receiving stolen property because of his possession of the shotgun and a car believed stolen in Colorado and driven to San Diego.
Lewis said Dolph had only two more days to serve on a burglary sentence in Colorado before he escaped from a prison camp there.
San Diego Municipal Judge Gale Kaneshiro scheduled a Sept. 10 preliminary hearing.
A police SWAT team waited in the hotel during the long stand-off, but grabbed Evans when he came to the door to pick up some food. They then fired tear gas into the room, and Dolph was arrested without injury.
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