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A Queens resident was arrested for kidnapping, raping and robbing a woman leaving Lower East Side club The Box last September. The Post reports that Harvey Contento was arrested last week in Midtown (it's unclear how the police tied him to the attack). It's believed Contento pushed the victim into his SUV, drove her across the bridge to Queens, where he raped her; then, after making her withdraw $500 from an ATM, he abandoned her in Forest Hills. There was another similar attack on a woman who had left The Box, but police haven't been able to link Contento to that crime.
Man Arrested for 2007 Kidnapping, Rape Outside L.E.S. Club
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"Contento was being held on $50,000 bail following his arraignment on charges that also include criminal sexual acts, kidnapping and robbery."
Only $50,000 bail! God forbid this creep comes up with that amount. Bail for these types of crimes should be in the seven figures. Kudos to the investigators for finding this guy one year after the crime.
Bail is meant to guarantee that a suspect will appear at trial, not to keep them in jail before they've been proven guilty. The exceptions to this are when the accused can be shown to be a likely flight risk, or if the prosecution can show pre-trial at a bail hearing that they have extremely strong evidence that will likely lead to conviction.
Since we reading this have no idea what the evidence against this person is -- and have no idea, therefore, how likely it is that he even committed the crime -- criticizing the bail figure is completely groundless.
Were any Critical Mass cyclists involved with the arrest?