SPRINGDALE — Police say an employee of a Glensprings Drive restaurant was abducted and forced to drive to East Fork Lake State Park in Clermont County early Tuesday, where she was knocked unconscious and robbed of her car and purse.

        The 24-year-old Fairfield woman told police she left work at Applebee's restaurant about midnight when her car stalled on Glensprings Drive near the restaurant along Springfield Pike (Ohio 4). Police did not release the victim's name.

        Springdale Police Detective Joe Warren said a man jumped into the back seat of the woman's 1996 White Plymouth Neon and ordered her onto Interstate 275.

        The man, decribed as Hispanic, 25-30 years old and about 6 feet tall with a four-letter script tattoo on his right arm, told the woman to drive east and exit at Ohio 125. He then ordered her to drive onto Ohio 122 and into the state park.

        The victim was unable to read the tattoo.

        In the park, the man struck her head with a metal object, possibly a pipe, knocking her unconscious, then drove away in her car. She was not sexually assaulted, police said.

        Detective Warren said the victim walked along the isolated park road for about 20 minutes until she was spotted by a couple that was driving through the park. They drove her to Clermont Mercy Hospital, where she was released after treatment for the head injury.

        Police ask for anyone who may have witnessed the abduction, suspicious activity in the park, or observed a car fitting the description, to call 346-5760. The car has a Wilmington College decal on the rear window.

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