MINNEAPOLIS – A Minnesota man has been sentenced to 300 months in prison for assaulting his estranged wife, kidnapping her and robbing a bank before fleeing to Mexico.
According to the defendant's guilty plea and documents filed in court, on July 14, 2011, Caskey forcibly kidnapped his wife from a street in Virginia, Minnesota, while she was walking with her 9-year-old son and three others. Caskey forced the woman into his car, attacked her son and fled with the victim. Caskey attacked her repeatedly before pulling off the highway and sexually assaulting the victim.
A day later, Caskey robbed the Great Southern Bank in Ottawa, Kansas. Before entering the bank, he used shoelaces to tie up his kidnapped wife and left her in his vehicle.
Thereafter, Caskey crossed the border into Mexico, where he was apprehended on August 8, 2011.
This case resulted from an investigation conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, the Virginia, MN Police Department, and the New Braunfels, Texas Police Department.
