Arizona man arrested after allegedly kidnapping Park City teen

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PARK CITY, Utah — An Arizona man has been arrested after allegedly kidnapping a Park City teen last week.

Mark Devine, a 32-year-old Mesa man, was charged on Monday in Utah’s 3rd District Court with kidnapping, a second-degree felony, possession of a controlled substance and use or possession of drug paraphernalia, both class B misdemeanors.

According to charging documents, a teen girl had told her mother that she was spending the night of August 10 at a friends house, but she never showed up to the residence.

In the early morning hours of August 11, the teen sent an SOS message from her phone stating that she needed help. The teen told her mother that she was being held against her will, and had been shoved into a closet.

The teen’s mother told her to turn on her phone’s GPS location, which her mother then shared with Summit County dispatch. Deputies from the Summit County Sheriff’s Department followed the location to one of the Powder Wood condos in Park City where Devine answered the door.

Devine told authorities that he was alone in the residence, however, dispatch had been texting the kidnapped teen and knew that she could hear officers knocking on the residence door.

“Deputies did a sweep of the apartment and located K.B. in a closet obviously upset,” said charging documents. “Deputies also noticed in plain view drug paraphernalia and suspected marijuana in the apartment. Devine told police he is an Arizona resident and rented the condo via a friend and AirBnB.”

After the teen had been found, she told deputies that Devine had picked her up on the evening of August 10, and they then went to McDonald’s. The teen stated that she did not remember much after going to the restaurant, except waking up in an apartment with vaginal pain. The teen told deputies that she felt as though she had been drugged.