A resident of the Bunker Hill housing development was charged today with kidnapping a 23-year-old woman downtown. Police Commissioner William Gross said the woman was found, alive in Victor Pena's apartment at 49 Walford Way.
Gross said detectives are now looking at whether Pena, 38, is involved in any similar incidents - and are still trying to find the second man spotted with him and the woman Saturday night.
Gross said tonight that Pena and the other man were spotted on surveillance cameras Saturday night chatting up the woman on Congress Street after she left Hennessy's on Union Street around 11 p.m. on Saturday. Pena then led her to the State Street Orange Line station, where they boarded a train to Charlestown, he said.
"She did not go along willingly," Gross said.
"She appears in good health" today, Gross said, adding that when police entered Pena's apartment, they found her standing next to Pena. They separated the two and took her to a waiting ambulance and Pena to a cruiser. Gross added that they did not have to break down the door; officers knocked and Pena opened the door.
Gross added that out of caution, police last night searched Charlestown High School, fields and dumpsters.
Innocent, etc.
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Maria has also been found.
By anon
Wed, 01/23/2019 - 11:42am
Maria has also been found.
The suspect looks like a odd
By HH
Tue, 01/22/2019 - 7:20pm
The suspect looks like a odd fellow:
https://www.facebook.com/victormanuel.pena.7505
What a real creep this
By anon
Tue, 01/22/2019 - 8:39pm
What a real creep this suspect is. Just got through reading the Globe article about this case, and it seems he has a history of harassing women and girls. Hopefully this time he'll be off the streets for good.
he looks
By Luke Warm
Tue, 01/22/2019 - 9:14pm
a different sort of troubled on his Facebook "king of puerto rico" page. on the MBTA cameras he looks like one of the faceless thalidomide/ agent orange mutants from the tim robbin's movie jacob's ladder. none of this is looking good, but he is entitled to a presumption of innocence until proven guilty.
King of... where?
By anon
Tue, 01/22/2019 - 11:05pm
On that Facebook page, he may claim to be "El rey de puerto rico", or the King of Puerto Rico; but the city he lists as his hometown is in the Dominican Republic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_José_de_Ocoa
And there's something really creepy about his "cuento" or story, when you consider this and other allegations in the past:
"I am a very romantic and caring man, and very hot. I love to spend time with beautiful young chicas from 18 to 35 years old. If you think you're a beautiful young chica and you know how to conquer a man, here I am to listen and talk with you."
Pile o Cash
By lud10
Wed, 01/23/2019 - 12:04am
I can’t believe you can still view this turds fb account.
Police success or failure?
By jomidi
Wed, 01/23/2019 - 9:35am
Yes, it is a success for BPD, finding the girl and catching her kidnapper. But, it may turn out to be a big failure for the BPD, not having caught or arrested him for prior offenses that would have prevented the kidnapping from occurring in the first place.
It's hard
By Gary C
Wed, 01/23/2019 - 9:53am
Being a creep is not a crime. He was "known" by the transit police, but in our society you have to actually break the law before they can arrest you.
If she can't remember anything, he will walk
By O-FISH-L
Wed, 01/23/2019 - 10:30am
I hope this guy gets life (he won't) or at least loses access to the government funded and heated Charlestown apartment. The air conditioner still in the window was a special touch during 5 degree temperatures. Who cares when we're paying for the heat?
Unfortunately, "prior bad acts" are not admissible in court, so forget his history of harassing women. Commissioner Gross said she was in "no condition" to resist. It was also a winter storm with frigid temperatures. To parse the Commissioner's statements, at some point she was wandering (drunk?) alone in the weather and most likely incoherent. All the suspect has to say is that he wanted to try to get her to a safe, warm place and she was unable to provide her address., so he asked her if she wanted to come to his place and she said yes, then she wouldn't leave. She's an adult. Both suspect and victim are fluent in Spanish, he could say they were bonding. He didn't kill her or take her phone (it pinged yesterday, maybe he bought her a charger). His court appointed lawyers will spare no expense on finding out everything, including why she was booted from Hennessy's. Barring sexual assault (he will say consensual if the rape kit is positive) he will walk.
As an ex-con showed me on his bicep tattoo, 12+1=1/2. Twelve jurors, one judge equals half a chance. He only needs one juror and Suffolk is notorious for not guilty verdicts especially if there is a hint of doubt. Watch for this story to fade quickly.
Fish FAILS Civics
By anon
Wed, 01/23/2019 - 11:35am
That's the way it is supposed to work, dear.
Not "cops say guillty so must be guilty".
This is not news to women..
By anon
Wed, 01/23/2019 - 12:11pm
This is not news to women...most men get off scott free.
Glad this predator is off the
By anon
Wed, 01/23/2019 - 7:43pm
Glad this predator is off the streets and thank you to the brave women who have reported this POS to the police in the past.
"ncluding why she was booted from Hennessy's."
By anon
Wed, 01/23/2019 - 12:47pm
Do we even know that's true? I only saw one person report it and the family specifically thanked Hennessy's so I doubt they would be thanking them if she was indeed booted from Hennessy's.
Fish did well in civics and at jury trials
By O-FISH-L
Wed, 01/23/2019 - 2:10pm
Your reasonable doubt may not be my reasonable doubt. We don't know what happened, other than he took an endangered young lady to a warm home during frigid, snowy conditions. He didn't kill her and apparently didn't damage her phone enough to stop it from pinging yesterday.
The prosecution may convince 11 jurors without a doubt but if the defense attorney puts up enough of a smokescreen, all he needs is the 12th to have doubt. Defense attorney has plenty to work with and whatever happened in the apartment will likely be her word against his.
As for her being booted from Hennesey's, I heard that on several news outlets, no idea if it has been confirmed.
Interesting
By anon
Wed, 01/23/2019 - 3:12pm
I saw many news outlets saying that she left with a man that was kicked out, however only one person I saw that said she was kicked out as well. The reason it interests me because so many people were trying to pub blame on Hennessy's the past few days, when looking back it doesn't seem they did anything wrong. We shall see...
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