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.
for 4 years, police reveal Published July 21, 2016 Associated Press Facebook339 Twitter194 livefyre608 Email Print Perry Coniglio.
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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He will probably meet a few Marines in prison.
Motels have very few staff, especially cheap ones like this appears to be. But you would think someone would have spotted something much sooner, I agree. But anymore, I think too many people just turn away because they do not want to get involved.
Unless being a veteran was secondary and he had some other reason to be holding him.
You may have a point. I recently stayed at a Motel 6, and near as I could determine it had exactly two employees.
He shouldn’t have gotten any bail.
If the motel/hotel is renting extended stay you can well assume it’s pretty run down and not asking question is part of the unspoken contract.
Yeah, that would have been the correct thing to do.
Bttt.
5.56mm
Excellent suggestion.
LOL LOL LOL!!
I agree
Wasn’t sure how that would go over :)
Wondering what his political viewpoint might be.
That’s funny, lol
Tie him to a car and drag him.
BUMP!
I imagine it was around Greensboro when my wife decided she wanted to get a room for the night, since we had driven from Louisiana. So we stopped at the first hotel we came upon. I'm almost positive that it was a motel 6. When I walked into the room, I think it was the dresser drawers were damaged, however, when I turned down the bedspread the sheets were filthy. I told my wife I am not staying in this place. Went to front desk, got a refund, and ended up finding a Holiday Inn Express not to many more miles up the road.
Point of my story, after that experience I would never even pull into a motel 6 anymore. I'm sure there may be some good ones, and I am not really a snob, but after that experience, no way. Funny thing about it was that the Holiday Inn Express did not cost anymore.
It’s probably $150,000. You pay 10%
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