Toledo man free on bond arrested by police for second incident

Mike Sigov, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio
·2 min read

May 26—Toledo police Wednesday arrested a man who allegedly abducted a woman the day before — about a month after he posted a bond and was released from jail in another abduction case.

Lt. Kellie Lenhardt, spokesman for Toledo police, said Micah Wright, 29, who was wanted on an abduction and burglary charges in a Tuesday incident, was to be booked into the Lucas County jail.

"On or about" April 8, Mr. Wright allegedly dragged a woman out of her car, forced her into his vehicle, and drove off, according to court records.

"While in traffic," the unnamed victim managed to put the car in park and tried to crawl out of a car window, at which time the suspect allegedly grabbed her, pulled her back, and bit her, according to an affidavit filed April 8 with Toledo Municipal Court.

The victim was finally able to get out of the vehicle. She then jumped into a bystander's car asking for help and they drove off, with the suspect chasing them for about five minutes, according to the document.

On April 22, Mr. Wright was arrested, charged with a third-degree felony abduction, and ordered by Municipal Court Judge Michelle Wagner to be held in the Lucas County jail in lieu of a $50,000 bond.

He was released from jail the next day after posting a surety bond in that amount.

On Tuesday, Mr. Wright was charged with another third-degree felony abduction in an incident, in which he allegedly abducted a woman from her home in front of her four children. He was also charged with aggravated burglary, a first-degree felony

According to an affidavit filed with the municipal court Tuesday, the defendant and two accomplices "on or about May 25" broke into the house of a woman "with the intent to abduct her."

She and her four children were home at the time.

The men then grabbed the victim, got her out of the house, and forced her into a vehicle, giving her a cut and a swollen lip, according to the document.

Mr. Wright is scheduled for arraignment in the earlier case June 1 in Lucas County Common Pleas Court.

Toledo Police Chief George Kral has told The Blade the first step to holding suspected violent criminals accountable would be to set higher bonds to prevent them from returning to the streets hours after they are arrested.

First Published May 26, 2021, 11:36am

Recommended Stories

  • Woman who 'racially abused' pub bouncer barred from Wetherspoons for life

    Police said a 24-year-old woman from Worcester has been arrested after doorman Tristan Price, 26, appeared to receive a torrent of racist abuse.

  • CureVac’s Covid-19 Vaccine Has Important Role to Play in Fighting Variants, CEO Says

    The European regulator started a rolling review of the shot in February based on preliminary results from laboratory studies and early clinical studies in adults.

  • Video shows 13-year-old trans teen being slammed to the ground as other students appear to watch

    After the violent encounter, Chad Sanford suffered several headaches and had suicidal thoughts, a family member said.

  • Uber recognises union for first time in landmark deal

    Trade union GMB can negotiate for drivers after it was recognised by the ride-hailing giant.

  • US banks accused of failing the public during Covid

    Bank bosses were grilled by US lawmakers over worker pay and overdraft fees during the pandemic.

  • ‘Bomb Threat' That Justified Belarus Hijacking Came 24 Minutes After

    Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/GettyThe Daily Beast, in collaboration with the Dossier Center, has exclusively obtained the original bomb threat email Alexander Lukashenko now claims was sent by the Palestinian militant group Hamas, allegedly prompting his order to land a Ryanair jet carrying a dissident journalist in Minsk.But timestamps show that the email was sent 24 minutes after Belarusian authorities told the pilot and crew that they were transporting an explosive device as well as passengers.“Allahu Akbar” runs the subject line of the email, the sender of which was ahmed_yurlanov1988@protonmail.com. “We, Hamas soldiers,” the email continues, “demand that Israel cease fire in the Gaza Strip. We demand that the European Union abandon its support for Israel in this war. We know that the participants of [sic] Delphi Economic Forum are returning home on May 23 via flight FR4978. A bomb has been planted onto this aircraft. If you don’t meet our demands the bomb will explode on May 23 over Vilnius.”Journalist Snatched from Flight Faces Belarus ‘Death Penalty’Adding to the fact that the message was sent after the mid-air bomb theatrics unfolded, the sought-for cease fire referenced in the email had already taken effect on Friday, two days before this communique was sent out.The bomb threat, Lukashenko insists, forced the Ryanair plane carrying one of Belarus’s most prominent opposition journalists to divert to Minsk Sunday at the added insistence of a MiG-29 fighter jet, which “escorted” the aircraft to an impromptu landing. Conveniently, it also gave Belarusian authorities a chance to snatch a reporter accused of galvanizing anti-government protests last year.Roman Protasevich, the former editor-in-chief of the Telegram channel Nexta, is now in the custody of the KGB, as Belarus’s post-Soviet security service is still called, as is his Russian girlfriend Sofia Sepega. Both have “confessed” on camera to a slate of anti-government offenses in what were obviously coerced performances redolent of Stalinist show trials.No one seriously buys the bomb threat claim, much less its attribution to Hamas, whose spokesman Fawzi Barhoum categorically rejected the group’s involvement in a 21st century plane hijacking—one that was more likely orchestrated by a government intent on quashing opposition from its own civilian citizens.Having initially downplayed the episode on social media, both the European Union and Ryanair have now taken to calling this brazen intelligence operation a “hijacking” and “state-sponsored piracy.” President Joe Biden called the incident an “outrageous” and “shameful” assault on the free press. All EU-based air carriers have since halted flying through Belarusian airspace and banned Belarus’s state-owned Belavia air fleet from traveling to EU countries.Putin Invites Belarus Plane Hijacker for TeaOn Monday, the bloc agreed to impose sanctions on Lukashenko’s regime, as reports continue to come in about arrests and suspect disappearances of other independent Belarusian journalists, particularly those who, like Protasevich, covered last August’s stolen presidential election and resulting protest movement. Lukashenko has spent close to a year consolidating his 27 year-reign, while casting his opponents as “terrorists” themselves and forcing them into exile or prison.Protasevich, who has been detained on terrorism and espionage charges, could face the death penalty in Belarus. The original email Lukashenko is hanging his nutty conspiracy theory on is riddled with other inconsistencies that clash with the established timeline of events that led to the plane’s forced landing.The email was sent to Minsk’s National Airport’s general information account at 12:57 p.m. on May 23, 27 minutes after the plane first entered Belarusian airspace and 24 minutes after air traffic control in Minsk first informed the Ryanair pilot that an emailed bomb threat was “shared with several airports.” Dossier Center But the Greek Civil Aviation Authority, which is responsible for the plane that took off from Athens, has publicly stated that it received no such warning at any point during FR4978’s journey. Lithuania did receive the email, but not Vilnius Airport, the intended destination; rather, the recipient was State Enterprise Lithuanian Airports, the state-run company that handles three different Lithuanian airports (Vilnius, Kaunas, and Palanga). So while Lukashenko’s KGB pulled off an impressive coup in snaring a political prisoner via air privacy, its excuse leaves much to be desired. Leaving aside the fact that Hamas isn’t for blowing up commercial airliners, the identity it chose for a Hamas representative was bizarre. Ahmed Yurlanov?The genesis of the name Yurlanov, as it happens, is Russian, Bulgarian, Azeri and—Jewish.This investigation was done in collaboration with Dossier Center and Newslines.Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.

  • ‘Outer Banks’ creators call teacher’s copyright lawsuit ‘absurd.’ A judge dismissed it

    A North Carolina English teacher had accused Netflix and the show’s creators of stealing the story line from his self-published novel.

  • Seven-alarm fire blaze across multiple buildings in Boston

    Firefighters have had to climb onto the roofs of the buildings to fight the blaze

  • More than 150 people are feared dead after a boat capsized in Nigeria

    "Most of them are petty traders, food vendors and the local miners," the Governor's spokesman added.

  • A Southwest Airlines flight attendant allegedly lost two teeth after a passenger assault, and it illustrates a growing trend of unruly behavior on flights

    Southwest Airlines says a passenger was "verbally and physically abusive" toward a flight attendant over the weekend.

  • Tom Brady becomes GOAT of Twitter after using Brooks Koepka-Bryson DeChambeau memes

    Love him or hate him, Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady continues to win Twitter.

  • Tom Brady becomes GOAT of Twitter after using Brooks Koepka-Bryson DeChambeau memes

    Love him or hate him, Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady continues to win Twitter.

  • Trump Organization probe enters potentially ominous phase with grand jury convened

    Special grand jury marks a shift in Cy Vance's Trump Organization probe as possible evidence of criminal conduct may be presented.

  • Aaron Rodgers skipped Packers voluntary workouts and is gallivanting in Hawaii with Shailene Woodley and Miles Teller

    Aaron Rodgers appears to be enjoying life in Hawai'i.

  • How Distrust of Donald Trump Muddled the COVID-19 'Lab Leak' Debate

    Around this time a year ago, then-President Donald Trump and his administration started to pivot away from their early defense of China’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Deploying patently anti-Asian rhetoric, Trump and his team started a systemic—and roundly condemned—campaign in April suggesting that the virus leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan, the city in which it was first identified. Trump routinely referred to COVID-19 as “the China virus,” “the Wuhan virus” and even “Kung Flu.”

  • Johnson watches Indy 500 from sideline itching to get in car

    Jimmie Johnson was inside a sauna at 120 degrees and climbing as part of an hourlong sweat session prepping him to race on hot summer days. Johnson had never before attended any part of the Indy 500. Had rules permitted, he just might have kicked Tony Kanaan right out of his car.

  • Congresswoman mocks Marjorie Taylor Greene with flowchart of antisemitism

    Republicans and Democratic lawmakers have condemned the congresswoman’s comments

  • A lab leak in Wuhan versus a natural hop from bats: Evidence for each theory of the coronavirus pandemic's origin

    A US intelligence report found that staff at a Wuhan lab fell ill just before the pandemic, fueling speculation the coronavirus escaped from a lab.

  • Ghislaine Maxwell's 'co-conspirators' poised to testify against British socialite in trial

    Prosecutors in the criminal case against Ghislaine Maxwell have raised the prospect that “co-conspirators” - women accused of helping recruit girls for Jeffrey Epstein - could testify against the British socialite in court. Lawyers for the US government have filed documents in New York saying they would turn over to the defence “the identity of any unindicted co-conspirator” they plan to call to give evidence. Authorities in New York have looked into the role played by four women - Sarah Kellen, Adriana Ross, Lesley Groff, and Nadia Marcinkova - in Epstein’s wide sex trafficking ring. The women, who are alleged to have worked under Ms Maxwell to recruit women and girls for the late disgraced financier Epstein to abuse, were granted immunity in a highly unusual “sweetheart deal” by US Attorney for South Florida in a 2007 criminal case. The women, and Ms Maxwell, have denied the allegations. The Telegraph contacted lawyers for the women, who are yet to respond.

  • Karine Jean-Pierre makes history as the first Black woman in three decades to hold the White House press briefing

    Jean-Pierre's appearance on Wednesday comes after press secretary Jen Psaki has made clear that she plans to step down from her role next year.