A Des Moines man is jailed who police say kidnapped his own daughter.
Duane VanDenHemel (Polk County Jail photo)
Des Moines police were called to a house Sunday afternoon where a woman claimed the non-custodial father of her child had kicked in a door, threatened her with a machete, then forcibly took their four-year-old daughter.
Minutes later, police spotted the suspect’s car, pulled him over and arrested him — though the child wasn’t with him.
The girl was located a short time later, unharmed, at the home of a relative of the suspect.
Police say 36-year-old Duane VanDenHemel is charged with kidnapping, burglary and violation of a no contact order and is being held in the Polk County Jail.