General News: Suspect in Abduction Turns Himself In
February 21, 2011
Police in the city of Newburgh report they have charged a man in connection with the forced abduction of a woman on Friday.
William Brandel, 47, of New Windsor, turned himself in to police on Sunday night, hours after his estranged wife was released. Police say that the unidentified woman told them that she was in a taxi at McDonald’s in Newburgh around 7:25 pm on Friday when Brandel, her husband, located her and began arguing with the cab driver. To avoid a further confrontation, the woman said she got into a car with her husband, who drove to Perusa Taxi on Bridge Street to complain about the driver.
At that point, the woman fled the vehicle and witnesses saw her hiding behind a van, then observed as she was found and forcibly placed into his Nissan Altima. The woman later told police that she attempted to leave the car when her husband stopped at the Cumberland Farms store on Route 94 in Salisbury Mills but that he caught her and struggled to get her back in the car. She continued that her husband drove around, then parked underneath a railroad bridge where they argued. She said she opened the door and tried to yell to passing vehicles for help but Brandel covered her mouth and pulled her back in.
Finally, according to the victim, Brandel calmed down and dropped her back off in Newburgh hours later.
After turning himself in, Brandel was charged with coercion in the first degree, a class D felony, and unlawful imprisonment in the second degree, a class A misdemeanor.
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