The man accused of kidnappng 9-year-old Charlotte Sena from an upstate New York state park last weekend was previously charged with choking someone during a domestic dispute.
As CrimeOnline previously reported, Craig N. Ross Jr was charged in 2017 with a misdemeanor count of criminal obstruction of breathing.
Police records show that officers responded to a report of a “physical domestic dispute” on April 21, 2017, NBC News reports, and determined that he “applied pressure on the throat of the victim during the altercation.”
Ross was arraigned at the Moreau Town Justice Court and released on his own recognizance, the records say. The final outcome of the case is not clear, however. The records don’t provide the name, age, or gender of the victim.
The 46-year-old Ross was arrested on Monday when police raided the camper where he lived — in his mother’s backyard — and found the missing girl in a cabinet. Investigators had tracked him down after he dropped a ransom note in the mailbox at the Sena home in Porter Corners, about 12 miles north of his home and 13 miles south of Moreau Lake State Park, where the Senas had been camping when Charlotte was snatched off her bike.
Investigators matched a fingerprint on the ransom note — which asked for $50,000 — to Ross’s fingerprints, taken after a 1999 drunk driving arrest.
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