A Rochester woman has pleaded guilty to a second degree kidnapping charge for her part in a bizarre abduction last summer. The Monroe County District Attorney’s Office says 47-year-old Jillianne Mencel agreed to plead guilty in return for a sentence of 17 yeaers in prison, followed by five years of post-release supervision. Mencel was accused […]
A Monroe County Court jury has found 30-year-old Joshua Mencel guilty on two charges of first degree kidnapping, plus coercion, unlawful imprisonment and assault. All were connected to the abduction of a pregnant Rochester woman last summer. She was held in a house on Santee Street by Mencel, his wife Jillianne Mencel and William Geer. […]
A 26-year-old Rochester man will serve 20 years in state prison for kidnapping, 15 years for first degree robbery and 10 years for two counts of second degree robbery. That means Vernon Cleveland Jr will serve a total of 35 years in prison followed by five years on parole. Cleveland was found guilty in February […]