A man grabs a coworker, shoves her into his car, locks the doors, and drives to another state after she refuses his advances. The crime is?

• A. False imprisonment
• B. Kidnapping
• C. Battery
• D. Assault

Answer: (B)

Taking a person away by force and carrying them to a new location is the defining element of kidnapping. The sequence here—grabbing, shoving into a car, locking the doors, and driving to another state—shows both coercive confinement and asportation (movement to a different place). That combination fits kidnapping because it involves forcibly taking and restraining the victim, with the added factor of crossing state lines. Battery and assault describe harmful contact or the threat of it, but they don’t capture the essential act of moving the victim to another jurisdiction. False imprisonment involves confinement without the additional element of moving the person to a different location, so it doesn’t cover the whole scenario.