Cops question suspect in clerk’s abduction

? Authorities held out hope Saturday that they could find a clerk who was abducted at gunpoint in a crime captured by the security cameras in a rural grocery store, a sheriff said. Officials were questioning a suspect.

Archer County Sheriff Ed Daniels said law enforcers were searching for Mindy Daffern, 46, a day after her abduction.

“We’re still hoping we can find her alive,” Daniels said.

About 20 investigators focused their search in an area of farmland and mesquite brush about 10 miles south of Scotland, in north Texas.

The search included bloodhounds, a helicopter and officers on horseback, Daniels said.

Earlier Saturday, officials found a black sport-utility vehicle parked outside a motel in Bowie, about 40 miles east of where Daffern was taken. The SUV matched the description of the vehicle used in the abduction, Daniels said.

The suspect, whom Daniels said authorities had not identified, will face charges of armed robbery and kidnapping. Additional charges will depend on the outcome of the search for Daffern.