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Marine vet, 81, held hostage in motel room for 4 years, police reveal
Fox News.com via AP ^ | July 21, 2016

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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Only $15,000 bail? That is outrageous. It should have been at least ten times that much.
1 posted on 07/21/2016 1:50:50 PM PDT by Kaslin
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They should be executed. Seriously.


2 posted on 07/21/2016 1:54:27 PM PDT by TheTimeOfMan (Three Percenter - Cruz/West)
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“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?


3 posted on 07/21/2016 1:54:40 PM PDT by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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The hotel staff noticed NOTHING over the course of FOUR YEARS??


4 posted on 07/21/2016 1:54:49 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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What’s REALLY sad is that this Veteran appears to have no family that missed him...

Other than that, hang this sumbitch!


5 posted on 07/21/2016 1:56:12 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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6 posted on 07/21/2016 1:56:19 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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They should be forced to eat the carpet from the motel room.


7 posted on 07/21/2016 1:56:52 PM PDT by oblomov (We have passed the point where "law," properly speaking, has any further application. - C. Thomas)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

High turnover among the staff?


8 posted on 07/21/2016 1:59:12 PM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Yeah....something is wrong with that.


9 posted on 07/21/2016 1:59:42 PM PDT by ColdOne (poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~GOPe=Vichy Republican swine/Lock Her Up!!!)
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Looking at Coniglio and considering the hotel staff had taken a vow of silence....I will speculate...


10 posted on 07/21/2016 2:04:11 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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No speekee ingleash?


11 posted on 07/21/2016 2:07:24 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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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 :)


12 posted on 07/21/2016 2:07:37 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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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.

13 posted on 07/21/2016 2:09:00 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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Reminds me, I gotta go feed mom.


14 posted on 07/21/2016 2:09:24 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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$15,000 is ridiculous. Add 3 more zeroes would be more appropriate.


15 posted on 07/21/2016 2:19:03 PM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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Nah,
No bail.


16 posted on 07/21/2016 2:29:38 PM PDT by sasquatch
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I want someone to beat the crap out of that vermin to the edge of his miserable life.


17 posted on 07/21/2016 2:34:19 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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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!


18 posted on 07/21/2016 2:38:11 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: sasquatch

In a sane world, he would be terrified to be out on bail.


19 posted on 07/21/2016 2:43:44 PM PDT by When do we get liberated? (A socialist is a communist who realizes he must suckle the breast of Capitalism.)
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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.


20 posted on 07/21/2016 2:47:57 PM PDT by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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