Pizza Helps Police Find Kidnap Suspect

June 10 -- The description of a house and a pepperoni pizza delivery from Little Caesar's provided by a 9-year-old girl kidnapped from her home led to her alleged abductor's arrest, authorities said today.

Authorities said the suspect, identified as David Montiel Cruz, 24, faces nine counts of kidnapping, sexual assault, burglary, robbery and assault with a deadly weapon. He was scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday afternoon.

If convicted of all the charges, Cruz could be sentenced to life in prison, Deputy District Attorney Matt Braker said.

The girl was abducted Friday after she returned home from school.

The Pepperoni Trail

Cruz was arrested in a predawn raid Monday at the home of a friend — less than a mile from the victim's San Jose home, police said. The capture came eight hours after the girl was released. She walked into a convenience store Sunday night and asked for help.

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Police said today it was the girl herself who gave them the information they needed to track down the suspect.

"To go through what she went through and to know that she was so terrorized when she first went into that market to try and get help, and be able to take a 180-degree turn from that and help those detectives immediately upon contact with her, to give them the key pieces of information that they needed was remarkable," San Jose police Deputy Chief Rob Davis said today on ABCNEWS' Good Morning America. "We could not have asked more from her. [She's] just a remarkable young woman."

Davis said information the girl gave police very soon after her release helped them locate the house where she was held, and her memory of the suspect ordering a pepperoni pizza from Little Caesar's allowed them to confirm their suspicions.

"There are a couple of things she did," Davis said. "She had a very good description that she could provide us of the house itself. And she did this within moments after we made contact with her, so that was one key piece that helped lead us to the actual house.