Kidnapping suspect's bid to flee into Canada thwarted by lack of Covid-19 test [View all]
A man stopped at the Canadian border for lack of a Covid-19 test has been accused of kidnapping a 16-year-old girl from Connecticut, sexually assaulting her and trying to sneak her across the border.
Christopher Constanzo, 19, of Connecticut made an initial court appearance Friday on the federal kidnapping charge. Constanzo appeared at the hearing in federal court in Burlington by video from the Northwest State Correctional Facility in St. Albans.
Magistrate Judge Kevin Doyle agreed to a request from Assistant U.S. Attorney Matthew Lasher to hold Constanzo in custody until a hearing next week. Attorney Sara Puls, a federal public defender representing Constanzo, did not object to the prosecutor’s request.
According to an affidavit filed in court by Chris Herzog, a special agent with federal Homeland Security Investigations, Constanzo tried to enter Canada Thursday morning through a border crossing at Highgate Springs in Vermont, driving the kidnapped girl’s Toyota Camry, which he had stolen, and with the girl in the back seat of the car, tied up with shoelaces.
https://vtdigger.org/2021/12/03/kidnapping-suspects-bid-to-flee-into-canada-thwarted-by-lack-of-covid-19-test/
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