(File Photo of a Pennsylvania State Trooper Car)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Walker Township, PA) A man was recently arrested after police said he abducted a 9-year-old Amish boy in Pennsylvania. Court records confirm twenty-five-year-old Tanner Nipple was both arrested and arraigned on felony counts of kidnapping and a misdemeanor count of false imprisonment after the abduction in September. A Pennsylvania State Police report confirms troopers were called to Locust Run and Renno Roads in Walker Township on September 16th, 2025 for a possible abduction. Troopers learned that the suspect stopped at the farm of the boy and forced him into a vehicle. According to a report from CBS affiliate WHP, the boy told troopers that he was selling produce when a man came up to him and placed a $20 bill in his money container and when he turned around, the boy told police the man wrapped his arms around him, covered his mouth, and shoved him into a white SUV, where he was forced to sit on the floor under the glove compartment, but when the driver made a U-turn, the child opened the door and escaped, running into a cornfield. WHP also reported that DNA evidence led police to Nipple after the $20 bill and other items were sent out to a laboratory for testing and the vicitim could pick Nipple out of a lineup, according to troopers, and phone records also placed his cell phone near the scene of the crime. Police note that Nipple was taken into custody without incident and was arraigned.