PDF: The indictment against Jeremy Mizell
Local prosecutors are hailing as a hero the grandfather who chased down a child predator more than a year ago when the man snatched his granddaughter in broad daylight from an Ace Hardware store.
A Hamilton County Criminal Court judge on Monday sentenced the admitted kidnapper, Jeremy Mizell, to 25 years in prison for especially aggravated kidnapping and the attempted rape of a child.
After being caught running away from the Ace Hardware store on East Brainerd Road, Mr. Mizell, 37, admitted to police in May 2009 that he had planned to “rape and kill” the girl.
A psychological examiner’s report would later confirm that that Mr. Mizell “has a very high risk for pedophilic behavior.”