COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - A former South Carolina police officer has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for kidnapping and holding his ex-girlfriend and infant son hostage in Georgia.
U.S. Attorney Walt Wilkins announced Friday that 25-year-old David Dietz of Lexington was sentenced to 25 years for kidnapping and carjacking and 10 concurrent years on a gun charge.
Dietz was convicted in September.
Authorities said Dietz ambushed his former girlfriend and son Jan. 3 as they returned from church. He then took them to a motel in Madison, Ga.
Dietz and a 17-year-old girl he forced to help him surrendered two days later after a 13-hour standoff.
His ex-girlfriend and son were released unharmed.
Dietz was a former policeman and probation officer employed by the Department of Social Services at the time.
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