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<h2 class="has-text-color wp-block-heading" style="color:#332428;font-size:14px"><strong>Woman held against her will for a year broke free in New Jersey and ran to a gas station for help leading to the arrest of her male abductor </strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color wp-block-heading" style="color:#332428;font-size:14px"><strong>In a dramatic episode, the woman ran to a New Jersey gas station in an attempt to escape the man she alleges held her captive for a year </strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color wp-block-heading" style="color:#332428;font-size:14px"><strong>The man, James W. Parrillo, 57, was arrested on kidnapping charges and eventually admitted to having choked the woman earlier this month </strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color wp-block-heading" style="color:#332428;font-size:14px"><strong>He allegedly threatened that &#8216;he would kill her and her family,&#8217; <strong>if she left</strong></strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color wp-block-heading" style="color:#332428;font-size:14px"><strong>He&#8217;s charged with kidnapping and stalling his own processing, two counts of aggravated assault, criminal restraint, and obstruction</strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color wp-block-heading" style="color:#332428;font-size:14px"><strong>The suspect may have have a history of similarly abhorrent &#8216;predatory conduct,&#8217; <strong>New Jersey authorities said</strong></strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color wp-block-heading" style="color:#332428;font-size:14px"><strong>Parrillo who also goes by &#8216;Brett Parker&#8217;, has been known to go by multiple aliases in <strong>other states</strong> </strong></h2>



<h2 class="has-text-color wp-block-heading" style="color:#332428;font-size:14px"><strong>He is being held in jail as charges against him pend </strong></h2>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/James-W.-Parrillo-1.png" alt="" class="wp-image-431507" width="798" height="982"/><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><strong>James W. Parrillo, [photo], who went by a number of aliases including &#8216;Brett Parker,&#8217; was arrested on a number of charges including kidnapping. He hindered his own apprehension by refusing to tell police his real name or give them a DNA sample, but eventually admitted to choking the woman in early Feb.</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>A woman who was held for a year against her will broke free of her alleged kidnapper earlier this month in New Jersey, authorities said Friday.<br>The woman, who has not been identified, desperately fled the home where she was been held in captivity to a gas station and begged for help, leading to the arrest of her alleged abductor. The 57-year-old suspect is being held on multiple charges. <br>The woman sought help at a gas station in Burlington County on Feb. 7, and she told people there she had been kidnapped for a year, the state attorney general’s office said.<br>The suspect James W. Parrillo, allegedly held the woman captive in Burlington County, New Jersey and choked her multiple times and threatened to murder her family if she left him.<br>Parrillo may have engaged in similarly abhorrent &#8216;predatory conduct; in other states and has been known to go by multiple aliases, according to the state Attorney General&#8217;s office. He is currently being held in jail as charges pend.<br>In video footage, the woman can be seen biking up to the gas station, followed by a large brooding man.<br>She is then brought into the shop&#8217;s back office, where she, appearing quite upset, is seated and kept separate from her alleged kidnapper.<br>Attorney General Matt Platkin said, &#8216;We are reaching out to law enforcement across jurisdictions to identify other people who may have additional information on the defendant.&#8217;<br>&#8216;Our investigation is ongoing and we are committed to doing everything we can to ensure we bring justice to this survivor,&#8217; he added.<br>The woman was befriended by Parrillo &#8211; who introduced himself to the woman as &#8216;Brett Parker&#8217; &#8211; at a gas station in New Mexico. He asked her for a ride to Arizona, according to authorities. <br>The pair engaged in a month-long consensual relationship that ended about a month later in California. But Parrillo choked the woman and made her feel &#8216;that she was unable to leave the relationship.&#8217;<br>The 57-year-old took the woman&#8217;s phone, spent money on her debit cards and did not allow her to contact members of her family during their time together.</p>



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<p>In late 2022, the pair turned up in Burlington County, New Jersey, where Parrillo &#8211; continuing to use his alias &#8211; rented a room on the second floor of a home in the Bass River Township.<br>On February 7, the woman fled the rented home after Parrillo choked her during an argument.<br>In an affidavit of probable cause filed by police in support of the kidnapping charge against Parrillo, one officer wrote that the woman had run &#8216;away once she had an opportunity.&#8217;<br>When she arrived at the gas station, she told two attendants that &#8216;Parker&#8217; had held her against her will for about a year. Her claims of choking aligned with the marks that were apparent on her neck.<br>Service station manager Jaitin &#8216;Bobby&#8217; Madaan told a local New Jersey outlet that the woman was &#8216;terrified&#8217; when she reached the business.<br>&#8216;She was shaking, she could barely get her words together but she kept saying, ‘He has kept me against my will for over a year. He kidnapped me,&#8221; he said.<br>&#8216;Parker&#8217; arrived at the gas station not long after the woman and attempted to enter the office, but was denied.<br>Surveillance video shows the man attempting to bypass the door that the woman had dead-bolted.<br>&#8216;You don&#8217;t want to do this,&#8217; he said to her, according to Madaan.<br>When authorities arrived, Parrillo refused to give them his real name, which led to his arrest for hindering his own apprehension.<br>Later, the man gave law enforcement his real name and admitted to choking the woman on February 7.</p>



<figure class="wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Conoco-gas-station-on-Route-9-and-County-Road-542-in-NJ.png" alt="" class="wp-image-431510" width="842" height="510"/><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><strong>The escape incident happened on the Conoco gas station, at the intersection of Route 9 and County Road 542 in Burlington, New Jersey</strong></figcaption></figure>



<p>Jersey police charged Parrillo with first-degree kidnapping, alleging that he had confined the woman for about a year for the purpose of terrorizing her and &#8216;inflicting bodily harm.&#8217;<br>He is accused of threatening the woman, saying that if she left, &#8216;he would kill her and her family.&#8217;<br>In addition to kidnapping and stalling his own processing, the accused was charged with two counts of aggravated assault, criminal restraint, and obstruction, according to court documents.<br>He also refused to give authorities a DNA sample, for which he was charged.<br>Pearl Minato, the director of the Division of Criminal Justice, said, &#8216;The allegations, if proven, demonstrate a level of predatory conduct that poses an extreme danger to anyone who crosses paths with this defendant.&#8217; <br>Parrillo assaulted her a month later when they were in California, and she felt unable to leave, the New Jersey attorney general&#8217;s office and state police said. <br>Parrillo took the woman&#8217;s phone and credit and debit cards, kept her from her family, and held her against her will, eventually in New Jersey, the officials said. </p>

Woman runs to New Jersey gas station, attempting to escape man she alleges held her captive for a year – Authorities suspect James Parrillo, 57, may have history of similarly abhorrent ‘predatory conduct’
