BALTIMORE (WJZ) — A hunt is underway successful Pennsylvania for Robert Vicosa, an ex-Baltimore County constabulary serviceman accused of attacking his estranged woman and kidnapping the couple’s daughters from the family’s York-area home.
Vicosa allegedly assaulted his woman Sunday astatine the Windsor Township residence and took her captive for astatine slightest 24 hours, according to York Area Regional Police. Police said the erstwhile constabulary serviceman kidnapped his daughters, ages 6 and 7, and has been connected the tally ever since.
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Investigators are looking for Vicosa and the 2 children. Police said the trio whitethorn beryllium successful the institution of Tia Bynum, a person and erstwhile coworker of Vicosa’s with the Baltimore County Police Department. The bureau said Wednesday that Bynum has been suspended.
Who Is Robert Vicosa?
Vicosa, 42, is simply a erstwhile Baltimore County Police serviceman who was fired successful August, the constabulary section told WJZ. Before his termination, Vicosa appeared earlier a constabulary proceedings committee and pleaded not blameworthy to charges of sleeping connected the job, insubordination and behaviour unbecoming of an officer, according to a transcript of a constabulary national newsletter.
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Details connected the circumstances of those allegations weren’t instantly wide Wednesday. A hunt of Maryland tribunal records shows Vicosa filed an entreaty successful April 2020 against an unspecified administrative enactment taken by the Law Enforcement Officers Bill of Rights Administrative Hearing Board (LEOBOR). The Baltimore County Circuit Court issued a ruling successful December 2020, upholding the proceeding board’s call. The quality of the administrative enactment against Vicosa is unclear.
Police judge Vicosa mightiness beryllium successful the institution of Bynum, a Baltimore County Police sergeant and adjacent friend. Investigators searching for Vicosa traced his telephone to Bynum’s home, but she was described arsenic “less than forthcoming” during an interrogation with police. When constabulary stopped by her location Tuesday, they recovered she and her conveyance were missing. She has since been suspended from duty.
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Investigators fishy Vicosa and his daughters mightiness beryllium traveling successful Bynum’s vehicle, a 2013 Lexus GS 350 with the Pennsylvania licence sheet fig KPK2076.