{"id":1632611,"date":"2022-09-04T11:03:49","date_gmt":"2022-09-04T15:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1632611"},"modified":"2022-09-04T11:04:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T15:04:47","slug":"arrest-in-kidnapping-of-kindergarten-teacher-heiress-to-billion-dollar-fortune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arrest-in-kidnapping-of-kindergarten-teacher-heiress-to-billion-dollar-fortune\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest In Kidnapping Of Kindergarten Teacher, Heiress To Billion-Dollar Fortune"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Farrest-in-kidnapping-of-kindergarten-teacher-heiress-to-billion-dollar-fortune%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1632611&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/tennessee\">Memphis<\/a> police arrested a man in connection with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/billionaire-family-offers-reward-for-kidnapped-heiress-kindergarten-teacher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">kidnapping of a kindergarten teacher and heiress<\/a> to a billion-dollar wholesale hardware company, officials said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Cleotha Abston, 38, was charged with aggravated kidnapping and tampering with evidence in the disappearance of Eliza Fletcher. The victim, whose abduction was captured on surveillance footage, was out for a dawn jog on Friday when the suspected allegedly grabbed her and forced her into a dark SUV. She remains missing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe investigation into the abduction of Eliza Fletcher is still active and ongoing. Investigators are continuing the search and following all leads,\u201d police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-432925\" class=\"wp-image-432925 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-04-at-9.41.07-AM-995x576.png\" alt=\"Cleotha Abston was arrested on kidnapping charges in connection with the disappearance of Eliza Fletcher.\" width=\"995\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-04-at-9.41.07-AM-995x576-1.png 995w, https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/09\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-04-at-9.41.07-AM-300x174.png 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-04-at-9.41.07-AM-768x445-1.png 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screen-Shot-2022-09-04-at-9.41.07-AM.png 1378w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-432925\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cleotha Abston was arrested on kidnapping charges in connection with the disappearance of Fletcher. (Tennessee Department of Corrections)<\/p>\n<p>The arrest came hours after police recovered the vehicle believed to have been used in the kidnapping of Fletcher, a 34-year-old married mother of two.<\/p>\n<p>It was not known if a tipster led police to Abston, but Fletcher\u2019s family had put up a $50,000 reward for information leading to her rescue.<\/p>\n<p>Fletcher is the granddaughter of the late hardware wholesale tycoon Joseph Orgill III, founder of the privately-held Orgill Inc. The company has annual sales in excess of $3 billion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe look forward to Eliza\u2019s safe return and hope that this award will help police capture those who committed this crime,\u201d the family said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Police found Fletcher\u2019s water bottle and smashed cell phone at the scene, at the crime scene, near the University of Memphis. The FBI is working the case along with the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and local police.<\/p>\n<p>Fletcher lives in Memphis with her husband of about eight years, Richard Fletcher III and their two children. Richard Fletcher has frequently posted on Instagram to mark milestones in the couple\u2019s eight-year marriage. In a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CMMwrLRgmkE\/\">March 2021 Instagram post<\/a>, he alluded to some past problems in their union.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYesterday marked 7 years married to this beauty!\u201d he wrote. \u201cIf you were to ask us at year 3 if we would make it to 7 we probably would of said NO! We apparently weren\u2019t given the memo that a healthy marriage is not going to come easy. Luckily, we put God\/Recovery first, we were both willing to believe in each other, and asked for help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are so thankful for individual counseling, couples counseling, recovery and friends! We can honestly say we wouldn\u2019t have it any other way!\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Fletcher is an experienced runner who once posted a time of three hours, 26 minutes in the St. Jude Memphis Marathon.<\/p>\n<p>Fletcher has brown hair and green eyes and is 5 feet, 6 inches tall and weighs 137 pounds. She was last seen wearing a pink athletic top and purple running shorts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memphis police arrested a man in connection with the kidnapping of a kindergarten teacher and heiress to a billion-dollar wholesale hardware company, officials said Sunday. Cleotha Abston, 38, was charged with aggravated kidnapping and tampering with evidence in the disappearance of Eliza Fletcher. The victim, whose abduction was captured on surveillance footage, was out for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1631981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1632611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1632611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1631981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1632611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1632611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1632611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}