Thursday, 4:30 PM
Fake cop who kidnapped 13-year-old held on $25,000 bail
By John R. Ellement,
Globe Staff
A Roxbury man was ordered held on $25,000 cash bail in the attempted kidnapping of a 13-year-old boy while allegedly impersonating a police officer.
The boy escaped unharmed after demanding to see the man’s badge, police said.
“He was going to check that dude out,” said Keri Hendricks, the boy’s mother, at Bolano's arraignment in West Roxbury Municipal Court this morning. “My son is not stupid.”
Raciel Carbonell Bolano, 28, faces charges of kidnapping and impersonating a police officer.
The incident occurred around 6 p.m. last night in Jamaica Plain when the boy was allegedly fleeing the scene of an unrelated incident when he said he was grabbed and forced into a vehicle by Bolano, who told the boy he was under arrest.
According to a witness, the vehicle had traveled down Boylston Street the wrong direction before Bolano exited the car, grabbed the victim off his bicycle, placed the boy's arms behind his back and forced him into the rear seat of his vehicle. The suspect then fled towards Centre Street, police said.
The boy told police that when he asked the man for proof he was an officer, the man allegedly dropped him off unharmed in the parking lot of a nearby pharmacy.
Police said they went to the address where the car was registered and after further investigation arrested Bolano.
Helene Tomlinson, Bolano's court-appointed defense attorney, said after the arraignment that Bolano was trying to help police, not commit a crime.
"He said he saw the kid running from police," she said. "It was his intention to bring him back to the police so they could deal with him."
