GENESEO – Police are asking for any information to back up a teenage girl's report of an abduction attempt on Main Street on Saturday. According to Geneseo Police Chief Eric Osganian, a 14-year-old girl reported that a man in his 40's or 50's called out to her from the bench near the corner of Main and Bank Streets, and grabbed her wrist and tried to drag her away. She says that she pulled away and ran down Park Street to Brodie Hall on the … [Read more...]
Rape Charges Arise in Perry from Armed Kidnapping
NYLON – Rape charges have been officially filed by the Wyoming County District Attorney's Office against a Perry man who allegedly abducted a woman at gunpoint from her York home on March 13, forced her to drive to his home in Perry, and raped her. Charles Braun, 66, was arraigned in the Village of Perry Tuesday afternoon on four felony complaints, those being Rape in the First Degree, a B violent felony, Criminal Use of a Firearm in the First … [Read more...]
Armed Kidnapping Suspect has Dark Past in Prison
Reading this on your phone? Download our new app on Google Play and the Apple store. YORK – Charles Braun, 66, the man who is accused of abducting a woman who had an order of protection against him and keeping her throughout the night at his house in Perry, has a terrible criminal and prison record dating back to 1991, when he went to prison for Attempted Murder. According to news partner 13WHAM, Braun originally went to Groveland … [Read more...]