30-year-old man arrested for allegedly trying to kidnap a girl in Wilmington

Investigators tracked down the man who allegedly tried to kidnap an 11-year-old girl while she was walking home from school in Wilmington earlier this week. 

The Los Angeles Police Department arrested the suspect on Oct. 23, two days after 30-year-old Jose Jaime of Hawthorne allegedly grabbed the girl from behind. Officers booked him for aggravated kidnapping with a bail of $1 million. 

A Ring camera from across the street captured the ordeal. 

"You just don't expect something like that to happen, especially in front of your house," 17-year-old Yvonne said. 

The teenager said she saw the man who attacked the girl at around 3:15 p.m. as she walked home from school near M Street and Gulf Avenue. Yvonne said she had just gotten home when she first noticed the suspicious man parked across the street. 

"I go back to my business folding my clothes and that's when I see the little girl walking and I see the guy behind her," she said. 

The 11-year-old was almost home when the suspect walked up and grabbed her from behind. Yvonne said she witnessed everything. 

"That's when I see the little girl walking and I see the guy behind her," she said. "I saw him getting close to her and he put his arms around her. You can see the girl trying to move her way out of it."

Yvonne recalled the man shouting that the girl was his niece before heading back to his car.