Fayetteville Police are searching for a kidnapping suspect after an incident in a parking lot at Fayette Pavilion last week.

Chief Johnny Roberts reported that Mack Arthur Prayor Jr., 28, of Fayetteville, approached his ex-girlfriend in the Home Depot Parking lot last Friday. The two got into her vehicle and talked for a while, then the woman reported that he "reached for what she thought was a weapon," Roberts said.

Prayor ordered the woman to drive out of the parking lot or he would kill her, Roberts noted. They drove into an area near Inman Road, where the woman managed to get out of the car.

"There was a short struggle, and she got away," Roberts said. The suspect drove away in her car, a 1995 four-door green Ford Explorer with a Gene Evans Ford drive-out tag, the chief added.

Prayor is being sought on charges of kidnapping and motor vehicle theft, Roberts said.

ROBBERY TRIAL

Tony Bernard Cooper was acquitted of robbery in the only criminal trial so far in the September term of Fayette Superior Court.

The Fayetteville man had been charged with taking $20 from Robert Jordan of Jordan's Salvage by "sudden snatching."

The clerk's office reports that many other defendants entered guilty pleas, including Greg Scott Clack of a Carriage Drive address in Riverdale. Clack was sentenced to four years for theft by receiving stolen property, and several drug possession charges, from incidents in December of 1997.