Sheriff’s detectives have arrested the suspect in Thursday’s harrowing kidnapping of a 35-year-old Roseville woman and are looking for an accomplice.

Late Thursday, detectives arrested Rick Anthony Cooley, 31, of North Highlands in connection to the brazen attack, in which the victim was kidnapped for several hours while her attacker drove around Placer and Sacramento counties

On Friday, Lt. Jeff Ausnow said deputies are looking into the possibility that Cooley wasn’t acting alone.

“We’re certainly looking into that and investeing that,” he said. “But we have no description of the second person.”

The ordeal began at 7 a.m., when Cooley and the woman apparently got into a minor car accident on Vineyard Road near Crowder Road on the outskirts of Roseville, officials said.

The two got out of their vehicles to exchange information. That’s when Cooley hit her, then pushed her into her car, Ausnow said.

For the next three hours, the man drove the woman around Sacramento and Placer counties until he dropped her at Duffy Lane and PFE Road – a rural pocket about 2.5 miles from the site of the original altercation.

The victim went to a local resident’s house and called for help. Meanwhile, the suspect then fled in the victim’s 2000 Mitsubishi Montero.

An investigation led detectives to Elkhorn Boulevard, where they arrested Cooley at 8:30 p.m., Ausnow said.

Deborah Labinger was at home Thursday morning when the victim, covered in blood, walked up to her house asking for help.

Labinger applied compression to help stanch the bleeding as the victim began telling her harrowing story.

“It seeed like she was not aware of how much time had passed,” Labinger said. “I realy felt like she was so mentally traumatized when she came to me, it was like the injury had ust happened.”

Labinger, a chiropractor with an office in North Highlands, said the man “just drove and drove and drove.

“It’s my understanding that when she tried to poke her head up he said, ‘get down.’”

At one point, another man got into the car, Labinger said, according to the victim.

The victim told Labinger she begged her assailant for her life repeatedly.

“She told him, ‘Please don’t kill me.’ I can only think tha because she was persistent and so earnest tha he finally relented.”

Ausnow said sheriff’s investigators don’t know what the motive was, and that the Cooley wasn’t known to her.

But Cooley is well known to law enforcement. Sacramento Superior Court records show Cooley has been charged with felonies going back to 1998, and was paroled in September. The offenses include cars thefts, receiving or selling stolen property, and felony robbery, records show.

On Thursday, sheriff’s added six more: kidnapping, carjacking, false imprisonment, assault, robbery and battery. Ausnow said bail would be set at $200,000.

He said the victim received facial lacerations which required sutures. She was treated for her injuries and released.

* Accident safety *

According to the National Crime Prevention Council, accidents are often used by criminals to draw victims out of their cars. It’s called the “bump and rob” technique, and can lead to assault, robbery, or both.

The group advises motorists involved in a minor accident to:

* Look around before getting out

* Make sure there are other cars around, then check the other car and see who’s in it.

* If the situation makes you uneasy, stay in the car and insist on moving to a police station or a busier, well-lit area to exchange information.