This story was originally published by the Daily Post on March 16.
BY ADRIANA HERNANDEZ
Daily Post Staff Writer
A man sentenced to two years and six months in prison for attempting to kidnap a student at Sequoia High School in Redwood City will not go to San Quentin because he has already been in jail for that long, a prosecutor said.
Trey Von Duus, 25, of Buellton in Santa Barbara County, pleaded no contest to attempting to kidnap a 16-year-old student, District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said. He was sentenced on Friday but he was released because of the time he had already served in jail waiting for his case to end, the DA said.
Duus entered the school at 1201 Brewster Ave. and grabbed a 16-year-old and told the student to come with him, but was confronted by a teacher on July 18, 2024, according to Wagstaffe.
“I need to take him, I work for the government, I come with the police,” Duus said, according to the DA’s office.
Duus told the teacher he had a gun, Wagstaffe said. The teacher put herself between Duus and the student and got him to leave the room as a teaching aide locked the door behind him, Wagstaffe said.
A custodian saw that Duus had a silver steak knife and was acting strangely, Wagstaffe said. Duus emerged from behind a pillar and did not cooperate with instructions. Police used what they call a “less-than-lethal round,” such as a rubber bullet and tackled him. But he would still not cooperate, so they ended up having to shoot him with a Taser, Wagstaffe said.
In police custody, Duus stated that he didn’t know what happened at the school, then continued saying he was a Russian spy trying to solve a murder committed by a student, Wagstaffe said.
After Duus was in custody, officers found that he had done an estimated $1,000 worth of damage from punching a wall in the women’s restroom, according to the DA’s office.