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UPDATE: Police say no children kidnapped in east Charlotte incident

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — UPDATE: Police now say a bizarre incident that Channel 9 followed in east Charlotte Monday afternoon is no longer considered a kidnapping.

Eyewitness News was there as dozens of officers responded to the scene on Eastway Drive.

Investigators said a woman was waiting in her car for her daughter to get off the school bus when the woman got into a fight with her sister and her sister's boyfriend, Jesus Rodriguez.

The woman told police that Rodriguez threatened her with a gun.

She drove away before her daughter got off the bus.

Police said Rodriguez later put the child in his car, along with his girlfriend's children, so they wouldn't be left alone.

Later that evening, police spotted the car Rodriguez was in and after a short pursuit, he pulled over. The children were found in the car and were not harmed, police said.

Rodriquez was not charged with kidnapping but still faces several charges related to the incident, including assault by pointing a gun and communicating threats.

ORIGINAL STORY:

A woman's daughter was taken during an armed kidnapping Monday afternoon in east Charlotte, a mother told Channel 9.

The mother said her sister and her sister's boyfriend kidnapped her daughter while she was getting off of the school bus. The three other children in the car belonged to the suspects involved in the case.

Sola-Ramirez said it all started with an argument with her sister's boyfriend on Casa Lynda Lane because she refused to give him a phone with photos of him holding a gun.

"The guy had a gun, he threatened me. He pulled a gun out and he was about to shoot me, so I had to pull out and drive," mother Denise Sola-Ramirez said.

Sola Ramirez drove off and pulled into a QT gas station at The Plaza and WT Harris Boulevard so she could could call 911.

Police tracked down the suspected kidnappers to a neighborhood off Dunlavin Way.

All four children were safely recovered.

The child in the backseat of a police vehicle.

The couple was taken into custody after a brief chase. Their names haven't been released. No charges have been filed.

No injuries were reported.

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