Pennsylvania

Man Kidnapped Sleeping Elderly Woman: Police

A man has been jailed on charges he rousted an 82-year-old woman who was sleeping in her southwestern Pennsylvania home and forced her to drive him to two bank branches where he could withdraw money from her accounts.
 
Somerset police say 26-year-old William Thompson II, of Somerset, used a BB-pistol to awaken and force the victim to accompany him about 3 a.m. Wednesday.
 
Police say the ordeal lasted about 90 minutes and that the woman didn't realize the gun wasn't loaded with bullets.
 
Police say Thompson is suspected in another attempted robbery about seven hours earlier in which the victim -- an 82-year-old man -- fought off the robber by wielding a stool.
 
Online court records don't list an attorney for Thompson, who remained in the Somerset County Jail unable to post $500,000 bond.

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