Arranging attempted kidnapping leads to prison time

Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Nevada Daily Mail

A Nevada woman was sentenced to time in the Department of Corrections.

Elise D. Deboutez had earlier pleaded guilty to three felony counts in a failed attempt to have two men kidnap her daughter from the child's father.

She had been charged with arranging an attempted child kidnapping, first-degree burglary and armed criminal action.

Police say Deboutez recruited two Joplin men at a party to kidnap her 1-year-old daughter from the girl's father, who had been given emergency temporary custody of the child.

The father hid in a bathroom with the girl when two intruders entered his home. Two shots were fired into the room before the men fled, but nobody was hit.

Deboutez received four years in the DOC, concurrent with her other Vernon County case and Jasper County sentences, with credit for time served.

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