UPDATE: The Jackson Township Police Department has canceled an alert for a missing endangered woman who was taken at knifepoint in Stark County on Wednesday evening.
A 38-year-old man is behind bars after allegedly kidnapping a 31-year-old woman in Jackson Township at knifepoint.
According to the Jackson Township Police Department, on Wednesday at around 5:23 p.m., officers responded to the Rodeway Inn in the 6800 block of Sunset Strip Avenue SW after it was reported that the victim was held at knifepoint, and then taken away against her will in a gray Hyundai.
On Thursday, around 8:22 a.m., officers found the woman and the suspect at a motel in the 4500 block of Lincoln Way in Perry Township, police said. The woman was uninjured, and the suspect, identified by police during the overnight search as Jamie Triplett, was taken into custody.
Triplett has been charged with aggravated robbery, kidnapping, disrupting public service and aggravated menacing, according to police.
According to records, Triplett was convicted of rape and kidnapping in 2012. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison, but was granted judicial release this year. He is a registered Tier III sex offender.
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