Acting Erie County District Attorney Michael J. Keane announced 24-year-old Abel Gebrehawaria of Buffalo pleaded guilty this morning before State Supreme Court Justice M. William Boller to one count of kidnapping in the second degree (class
Prosecutors said the abduction occurred March 2 when Abel Gebrehawaria, 24, tracked the woman to her home on George Urban Boulevard in Cheektowaga after she left an establishment in downtown
Acting DA Michael J. Keane said stranger abduction attempts are very unusual in Western New York. He and the county s Special Victims Bureau chief could not recall a previous instance