Daniel Clayton BryantFederal Bureau of Investigation agents said Tuesday they had arrested a Mountain View Chevrolet employee, Daniel Clayton Bryant, in Cedar Hill, Texas.
A federal affidavit charges Bryant with driving a disabled Mountain View customer against his will to multiple banks in Tennessee and Georgia between April 1, 2019, and April 3, 2019, withdrawing nearly $200,000 from the customer's account in cashier's checks and forcing him to smoke crack cocaine in a hotel room.
Two days after Chattanooga police found the disabled man on April 3 and made a report, an FBI agent got permission to take money out of Bryant's bank account and track his cellphones, documents say. Bryant then fled to Atlanta and ultimately was captured in Texas. It's unknown if he has a defense attorney yet.
Bryant had an initial hearing Tuesday in a federal court in Texas and is being extradited back to Chattanooga on kidnapping and bank robbery and extortion charges.