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Attorney: Huskins victimized by police

March 28, 2015 by Donna Beth Weilenman Leave a Comment

Denise Huskins has been “the victim of a very serious assault,” her San Franciso attorney, Doug Rappaport, said Thursday, the day when his client returned to Vallejo to speak with investigators who are looking into the report that the 29-year-old woman was abducted for $8,500 ransom early Monday morning.

And she was victimized again by police, Rappaport added.

Huskins’s boyfriend, Aaron Quinn, 30, also has hired an attorney, Dan Russo, who said Thursday his client had been bound and drugged by at least two unfamiliar assailants before they dragged Huskins from his home in the 500 block of Kirkland Avenue, on Mare Island, Vallejo.

Huskins was found Wednesday morning in Huntington Beach, more than 400 miles south. During the trip, she apparently made an audio recording that said she had been kidnapped but was safe. That recording was sent to the San Francisco Chronicle through an emailed link.

Vallejo police Lt. Kenny Park, speaking for the department late Wednesday, said, “This event appears to be an orchestrated event and not a kidnapping,” and expressed dismay at what he called “a wild goose chase and tremendous loss (of resources).”

Multiple agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, joined Vallejo detectives in responding to Quinn’s report of the abduction, which came about 10 hours after he said Huskins was forcibly removed from the house.

His car also was taken, but was found later Monday in an undisclosed Vallejo location.

At least 40 investigators and 100 searchers, including dive teams, combed neighborhoods and the Mare Island coastline, looking for clues to Huskins’s whereabouts.

Her family rushed to Solano County when they learned of her disappearance. Early Wednesday morning, her father, Mike Huskins, said he received a voice message from his daughter, saying she had been dropped off a few blocks from his home and that she was all right.

The FBI arranged for a plane to transport Huskins back to Vallejo, but when agents arrived to pick her up, she was gone.

By Wednesday night, Park announced, “There is no indication that this was a random act of violence.”

Park said investigators were never able to substantiate Quinn’s statements, and that by late Wednesday Huskins, her family and Quinn had broken off contact with police.

FBI agents began examining financial records of both Quinn and Huskins, and one spokesperson, Gina Swankie, said the bureau knew Huskins’s whereabouts.

She was returned to Vallejo Thursday, where she was questioned for several hours by detectives.

Rappaport defended his client. “This is no hoax — no laughing matter,” he said Thursday. He said that his client, like many women who are victims of serious crimes, was “initially reticent to come forward.”

However, he said she has “cooperated fully” with police.

He accused Vallejo police of issuing a “very nasty press release” in which the department “very quickly threw her under the bus.”

While Park said police were looking into filing charges against the pair, Rappaport said, “If you look at the facts, there’s no way she should be charged.”

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