Man Charged With Kidnapping, Assault: South Windsor Police

SOUTH WINDSOR, CT — A Meriden resident was charged with kidnapping and other offenses after a juvenile female reported he hit and strangled her while refusing to allow her to leave his pickup truck Sunday morning, according to police.

Erasmo Dejejus-Olmos, 21, was charged with second-degree kidnapping, interfering with an officer, interfering with an emergency call, third-degree assault and third-degree strangulation/suffocation. He was held on $100,000 bond, and was slated to be arraigned Monday in Manchester Superior Court.

Around 5:32 a.m., South Windsor police responded to the area of Burnham Road and John Fitch Boulevard after receiving a phone call from a Spanish-speaking female, stating she was inside a pickup truck and the male driving would not let her leave. The vehicle was located and stopped, and the female victim, identified as a juvenile, was safely removed from the truck, police said.

The girl told officers Dejejus-Olmos would not allow her to leave the vehicle, took her phone from her so she could not call 911, hit her and strangled her, police said.