Posted on 07/21/2016 1:50:50 PM PDT by Kaslin
HIGHLANDS, N.Y. – A man held an 81-year-old Marine Corps veteran hostage in his squalid motel room for at least four years in order to steal his benefits checks, authorities said Thursday.
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Perry Coniglio. (Highlands Police Dept.)
HIGHLANDS, N.Y. – A man held an 81-year-old Marine Corps veteran hostage in his squalid motel room for at least four years in order to steal his benefits checks, authorities said Thursday.
Perry Coniglio was arrested Tuesday in his room adjoining the victim's at a motel in Highlands. The motel sits next door to the police station in the Hudson Valley town, about 50 miles north of New York City.
Coniglio, 43, used brute force and intimidation to get the mentally diminished veteran to cooperate with him, police said. The elderly man has advanced dementia, according to police.
Police Chief Jack Quinn said the veteran received a "tremendous amount of money" each month in Social Security benefits, pension checks and food stamps, though investigators would not divulge the exact total.
The veteran was taken to a hospital for evaluation. His name hasn't been released by police.
Coniglio was being held Thursday in the Orange County Jail on $15,000 bail. The charges against him include grand larceny and unlawful imprisonment. The Legal Aid Society attorney representing him wasn't available for comment.
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They should be executed. Seriously.
“Only $15,000 bail? That is outrageous. It should have been at least ten times that much. “
Ridiculous! Is this guy the Mayor’s cousin?
The hotel staff noticed NOTHING over the course of FOUR YEARS??
What’s REALLY sad is that this Veteran appears to have no family that missed him...
Other than that, hang this sumbitch!
They should be forced to eat the carpet from the motel room.
High turnover among the staff?
Yeah....something is wrong with that.
No speekee ingleash?
Nice stereotyping there :) jk
If he was mafia he wouldn’t need the check.
And mafioso treat older veterans with great respect as many of the older ones are vets.
This thing of our isn’t the Bloods and the Crips.
He would have been executed my the bosses if he was connected and this was discovered.
Now the italian that beat the #### out of those 2 muslims, he might be mafioso :)
I cannot believe this scum bucket can get so a low bail. Hopefully though it is a cash bail only meaning he has to come up with the entire amount in cash.
Reminds me, I gotta go feed mom.
$15,000 is ridiculous. Add 3 more zeroes would be more appropriate.
Nah,
No bail.
I want someone to beat the crap out of that vermin to the edge of his miserable life.
So sad for that marine, or anybody to be treated that way. Luckily, a good neighbor with an iphone filmed the elder man being abused. The hotel staff were probably being paid off every month to look the other way. They too should be prosecuted!
In a sane world, he would be terrified to be out on bail.
My first job after college was in Westchester, pricey rent. I didn’t want to live in Westchester anyway. I had an apartment in Highland Falls, just south (2 miles) of West Point. It’s I really sleepy town, no urban element, nothing to see. I’m fairly shocked.
A liberal NY judge sets bail at $15,000...and you watch, when convicted the judge WON’T demand restitution.
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