Police ID kidnapping suspects

PANAMA CITY BEACH - Hattiesburg Police Monday released the names of two people arrested last week in connection to the abduction of a Panama City Beach woman.

Ruperto Flores, 57, and Castillo Uriel, 31, have been booked into the Forest County, Miss., Jail on charges of conspiracy to commit kidnapping, according to a police spokesman. Investigators there continue to work with investigators from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the suspects could also face charges in federal court.

Flores and Uriel are suspected of taking Flor Esmeralda Turcio-Arias from her home Thursday around noon while she washed her car. She walked into the Hattiesburg Police Station after escaping through a bathroom window at a nearby house where she was being held.