'I love you and I'm going to kill you': Man wraps cord around ex-girlfriends neck, kidnaps her, US Attorney says

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'I love you and I’m going to kill you': Man wraps cord around ex-girlfriends neck, kidnaps her, US Attorney says
Luis Analberto Pineda-Anchecta convicted
Updated: 11:22 AM EST Feb 24, 2021
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'I love you and I’m going to kill you': Man wraps cord around ex-girlfriends neck, kidnaps her, US Attorney says
Luis Analberto Pineda-Anchecta convicted
Updated: 11:22 AM EST Feb 24, 2021
A North Carolina man is headed to prison after he tied up and kidnapped his ex-girlfriend as he told her, “I love you and I’m going to kill you," according to Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Luis Analberto Pineda-Anchecta, 38, a Honduran national, was sentenced Tuesday to 240 months in prison and five years of supervised release on kidnapping chargesAccording to filed court documents, evidence presented at Pineda-Anchecta’s trial and the sentencing hearing, Charlotte police officers arrested Pineda-Anchecta on or about May 15, 2018 on several state charges, including assault on a female and communicating threats against his ex-girlfriend, identified in court documents as F.M. He was released on bond. According to evidence presented during the trial, on the evening of May 21, 2019 F.M. was approached by two masked men as she was walking to her vehicle parked at her apartment complex in Charlotte. The victim told authorities she recognized one of the masked men as Pineda-Anchecta, who grabbed her by the arm, stuffed a cloth in her mouth, and wrapped a cord or rope around her head so the cloth would stay in place, according to documents. Murray said Pineda-Anchecta and the other masked man forced F.M. against her will into the passenger seat of a vehicle, and Pineda-Anchecta told F.M., “I love you and I’m going to kill you.”According to trial evidence, the other masked individual did not accompany Pineda-Anchecta and F.M. in the vehicle.Pineda-Anchecta then drove his vehicle on Lancaster Highway. Court records show that while Pineda-Anchecta was driving, he maintained a tight grip on the plastic rope tied around the victim’s face. Murray said after traveling a short while on Lancaster Highway, Pineda-Anchecta parked his vehicle on the side of the road near a wooded area and turned off the vehicle’s engine. Pineda-Anchecta maintained his grip on the plastic rope around F.M.’s face and pulled the victim out of the car, according to Murray. He then dragged the victim to a wooded area off of Lancaster Highway with which he was familiar, as the defendant had gone fishing there on previous occasions, Murray said. Evidence showed that following a struggle between Pineda-Anchecta and F.M., the victim was able to escape and run into the middle of the highway and was assisted by motorists who stopped to offer help.According to court records, the victim identified Pineda-Anchecta as the person who had assaulted her. After obtaining a search warrant, CMPD officers said they searched Pineda-Anchecta’s vehicle, from which they recovered a spool of plastic rope similar to the rope wrapped around the victim’s face during the course of the kidnapping.Law enforcement said they also located the victim’s phone in Pineda-Anchecta’s vehicle. On June 23, 2020, a federal jury convicted Pineda-Anchecta of kidnapping following a two-day trial.In determining the sentence, Judge Conrad noted that this incident was “a series of violent acts between the defendant and victim that escalated over time and culminated into this offense.” Judge Conrad enhanced the sentence after noting that “this was not a mere kidnapping, but that the defendant intended to kill the victim.”Pineda-Anchecta is currently in federal custody and will be transferred to the custody of the federal Bureau of Prisons upon designation of a federal facility. The defendant will also be subject to deportation proceedings upon the completion of his federal sentence. Pineda-Anchecta was previously convicted of illegal reentry by a deported alien and was sentenced to seven months in prison.

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