{"id":64684,"date":"2025-11-25T18:29:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T18:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/64684\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T18:29:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T18:29:18","slug":"el-paso-man-sentenced-to-four-years-for-kidnapping-ex-girlfriend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/64684\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso man sentenced to four years for kidnapping ex-girlfriend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 An El Paso man was sentenced to four years in federal prison for kidnapping his ex-girlfriend.<\/p>\n<p>Leland Alexander Drumheller, 20, was sentenced on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred on Jan. 20 when Drumheller lured his ex-girlfriend into his vehicle under the pretense of retrieving a sweatshirt. <\/p>\n<p>Once inside, he drove away, preventing her from escaping by grabbing her hair and sweatshirt, according to officials. <\/p>\n<p>Officials with the DOJ Western District said the victim attempted to alert her current boyfriend, but Drumheller threw her phone out of the vehicle. <\/p>\n<p>He drove her to a desert area in Chaparral, N.M., where he threatened her with what she believed was a gun. <\/p>\n<p>Drumheller warned, &#8220;If you play me again, it&#8217;ll get worse,&#8221; before leaving her in the desert, according to federal officials. <\/p>\n<p>He was arrested on Feb. 3 and pleaded guilty on Sept. 2. <\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/mother-allegedly-attacked-deputies-during-domestic-violence-arrest-in-canutillo-texas-tx-el-paso-county-sheriff-oscar-ugarte-kingsway-drive?SRC=LINK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mother allegedly attacked deputies to prevent arrest of daughter in Canutillo<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up <\/a>to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 An El Paso man was sentenced to four years in federal prison for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-64684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}