Doylestown Intelligencer | By Matt Coughlin
Authorities arrested a Quakertown area man on kidnapping charges after he allegedly held a woman in a Doylestown motel room at gunpoint Saturday morning.
Police said Richard J. Bianchini Jr., who turned 31 on Saturday, was armed with a handgun and a shotgun when officers arrested him as he left the Days Inn on the 600 block of North Main Street in Doylestown.
Chief James Donnelly said a woman called police Saturday morning claiming she’d been held against her will in the motel. The woman told police she’d managed to get away that morning but the man was still in the motel.
An employee of the motel, formerly the Court House Motor Inn, said that another employee called Bianchini’s room at the request of police. They asked him to come to the front desk around 8 a.m. and when he arrived officers arrested him. No one was injured in the incident, police said.
Donnelly said the pair had gone to the motel together but that Bianchini wouldn’t let her leave. Police said the pair knew one another, but the nature of their relationship was unclear Saturday. Bianchini was arraigned early Saturday afternoon before District Judge Mark Douple and sent to Bucks County Prison on $1 million bail. He is charged with kidnapping, unlawful restraint, possession of an offensive weapon, making terroristic threats, false imprisonment, recklessly endangering another person, simple assault, committing a crime in possession of a firearm, drug possession and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Police said Bianchini had a gun, a shotgun and some marijuana with him when he was arrested.
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for June 29 before Douple in district court.
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