Texas man charged with kidnapping after allegedly holding a woman captive in a trailer for four years
Man charged with kidnapping after ‘holding a woman captive at gunpoint for FOUR years’ in a Houston trailer with bars on the windows and a padlock so strong bolt cutters couldn’t break it
- Abraham Bravo Segura, 42, arrested Wednesday and charged with kidnapping
- A 32-year-old woman who called officers from inside the trailer in Houston said she was being held captive. Rescuers had to use power tools to cut through the bars on the windows.
- Segura remains in jail and is scheduled to be arraigned Monday.
A Texas man has been charged with kidnapping after he allegedly held a woman captive inside a trailer with bars on the windows and a padlock so tight that rescuers had to use power tools to break through.
Abraham Bravo Segura, 42, was arrested Wednesday and charged with restraining the woman by “hiding and holding her” in a location where she was “not likely to be found,” according to the criminal complaint.
The 32-year-old victim, whose identity has not been released, called for help from a phone inside the mobile home on West Greens Road in Houston while Segura was at work. KTRK informed.
She reportedly told Harris County Sheriff’s Office deputies that Segura held her at gunpoint and threatened to kill her.
Segura is in custody at the Harris County Jail on $150,000 bond. It is scheduled to be processed on Monday.
Abraham Bravo Segura, 42, was arrested Wednesday and charged with felony kidnapping for allegedly keeping a 32-year-old woman in a Houston trailer with bars on the windows for four years.
The 32-year-old victim, whose identity has not been released, called for help from a phone inside the mobile home on West Greens Road in Houston while Segura was at work.
According to a criminal complaint obtained by ABC Newsthere were bars on the windows and a padlock that the firefighters tried to open with a bolt cutter but could not.
The fire department eventually had to use power tools to cut through the bars in order to get into the trailer and rescue the woman.
Three handguns were found inside the trailer, according to court documents.
In Segura’s first court appearance on Thursday, a prosecutor laid out the allegations against him, arguing that he had kidnapped the woman and kept her locked in the trailer for four years.
“The defendant had kept the complainant inside a trailer for approximately four years,” the prosecutor said.
The prosecutor added that all exits to the trailer were blocked.
Segura tried to defend himself, saying that the “story is one-sided.”
There were bars on the windows and a padlock that the firefighters tried to open with a bolt cutter but couldn’t.
Segura is in the Harris County Jail on $150,000 bond. It is scheduled to be processed on Monday.
But the hearing officer told the court: ‘Today we are not going to discuss the facts of the case.’
Segura’s friend, Auseilsaul Contreras, told KTRK that his friend was innocent. Fox News reported.
“I (saw) them together,” Contreras said. ‘They came to our house at some point when we had parties and everything. They were good. I don’t know what they are saying.
Segura, whom the public defender described as a barber and tattoo artist, has a prior conviction for misdemeanor possession of marijuana in 2006.