Police: Meriden Couple Found Safe in Louisiana

The Meriden man and woman police have been searching for Monday were both found unharmed in LaFayette Parish, Louisiana. Meriden Police are now saying that the incident was likely not a kidnapping.

Muhammed Hussien, 25 and Justine Boynton, 30, were discovered by a local Sheriffs Department in Louisiana after Meriden Police notified the department of an address at which the couple might be found, according to a police statement released at 6:12 p.m. Monday.

Police said Boynton was unharmed, and that Hussien is being held on $500,000 bond for an arrest warrant on charges of kidnapping and sexual assault that Boynton filed against him Feb. 6. Officials will try to extradite him to Connecticut, police spokesman Sgt. Leonard Caponigro said. 

Meriden police started searching for the two Monday after Boynton's family called and said they hadn't heard from the woman since Friday, Caponigro said.

Police sent a SWAT team to a 101 West Main St. apartment on a tip that the two were there this afternoon. After that yielded no sign of either Hussein or Boynton, they issued a statement to the press at 2:45 p.m. about the search.

The statement said police presumed Boynton may have been kidnapped by Hussein, and asked anyone who saw the two to phone police.

Further details on the incident will be released when they are available.