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Trial for kidnapping and assault continued because of witness used | News

The trial of a Lawton man accused of kidnapping a Lyft driver and forcing him to drive her to a shootout has been adjourned because a witness could not appear due to an overseas assignment.

The trial of Augustin Lester Suarez-Oliver, 24, of Lawton, was scheduled to begin Thursday in the court of Comanche County Presiding District Judge Emmit Tayloe, records show. He is charged with discharge of a deadly weapon, kidnapping and making criminal threats with a firearm.