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Suspects still sought in abduction case

Summit Hill police are still looking for the whereabouts of two people involved in an alleged abduction and robbery that occurred within the borough limits last month.

Borough police Chief Joseph Fittos Jr. said Monday that they are still trying to locate John Russup, 54, whose last known address was Owl Creek Road in Tamaqua; and Amber Neff, 31, whose last known address was Rockery Road, Spring Grove, in connection with the incident.Kerri Blasko, 49, of 143 E. Earley Ave., Coaldale, was arrested last week for her part in the abduction.Blasko is currently in Carbon County Correctional Facility after being unable to post bail.Both Russup and Neff face charges of two counts of robbery, aggravated assault, false imprisonment and simple assault.The trio was wanted in connection with an alleged abduction that resulted in the stabbing and robbery of a Tamaqua woman on the evening of Nov. 18.According to police, the woman reported that she had been kidnapped, robbed and stabbed by two women and a man.During the incident, the woman had been picked up in Tamaqua and driven to East Mountaintop Road in the White Bear section of Summit Hill, where she was assaulted.The assailants then took her money and threw her out of the vehicle. Police found the victim on Bugzie’s Mountain, where she was treated by an ambulance crew and transported to St. Luke’s Miners Campus in Coaldale.Anyone with information on Russup or Neff’s whereabouts is asked to call Summit Hill police at 570-645-7429 or call 911.