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Accused kidnapper
is arrested
PUTNAM — The Putnam Police Department Feb. 16 arrested an accused kidnapper.
Megan Klingensmith (aka Megan Johnson), 39 of no certain address was taken into custody by Putnam Police Detectives from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and extradited back to Connecticut.
Klingensmith was the subject of an arrest warrant issued by Danielson Superior Court related to an investigation initiated Nov. 29, 2015 and conducted by Putnam Police Department with assistance of the CT State Police Major Crimes Unit. This is the fifth arrest related to that incident.
Klingensmith was charged with: first-degree assault, first-degree kidnapping, cruelty to persons, second-degree threatening, first-degree reckless endangerment, first-degree conspiracy to commit assault and first-degree conspiracy to commit kidnapping.
The victim, a male who was 29 years old at the time, said he was assaulted by several people and forcibly transported from Putnam to the area of Pulaski State Park in Rhode Island where he was left. The victim suffered significant injuries and was hospitalized.
More arrests related to this incident are expected.
All accused are innocent until proven guilty
.