SHELBY, N.C.,None — A Shelby man is in jail after sheriff's deputies say he kidnapped a teenage girl.
Harry Jones, 48, from the 2000 block of Old Gaffney Road, was charged with assault inflicting serious injury, kidnapping, assault by strangulation and communicating threats.
The incidents happened Saturday and Sunday.
Arrest warrants state Jones struck the girl with his fists, causing multiple cuts, a nose fracture and a small leak in her lung. Jones told the girl, "You're gonna die, I gotta figure this one out," according to warrants.
Jones was booked into the Cleveland County jail without bond.
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