Kimmet Haggins

Authorities on Saturday were seeking a Los Angeles man who they say stole a van containing two young girls from a Castaic gas station in a move to escape armed drug buyers. Wallace Turner, 35, allegedly kidnaped Amanda Engholm, 4, and her sister, Jana, 2, of Wildomar, Friday after the drug buyers discovered they had been swindled, said Lt. Ed Chenal of the Santa Clarita sheriff's station.

Authorities on Saturday were seeking a Los Angeles man who they say stole a van containing two young girls from a Castaic gas station in a move to escape armed drug buyers. Wallace Turner, 35, allegedly kidnaped Amanda Engholm, 4, and her sister, Jana, 2, of Wildomar, Friday after the drug buyers discovered they had been swindled, said Lt. Ed Chenal of the Santa Clarita sheriff's station.

Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies said a kidnap victim became a kidnaper after drug buyers gave him and accomplices $150,000 for 12 boxes of Betty Crocker pudding mix. Deputies are seeking Wallace Turner, 35, of Los Angeles in the kidnaping Friday of two girls--Amanda Engholm, 4, and her sister, Jana, 2, of Wildomar in Riverside County--from a Castaic service station. Turner stole a van containing the two girls after escaping from his captors, said Lt.