Man took woman to Olive Garden after forcing her to marry him at gunpoint, told cops he was a 'really safe guy': Police

A New Hampshire antheral was arrested aft constabulary were alerted to a pistillate being held against her will astatine an Olive Garden parking lot.

Daniel Ouellet, 47, is presently down bars astatine the Rockingham County Department of Corrections, wherever helium is being held pursuing his apprehension connected June 6. According to tribunal documents reviewed by Law&Crime, Ouellet was taken into custody by the Newington Police Department aft authorities were alerted astir a pistillate who claimed she was being held against her will.

Police said the lawsuit started erstwhile Pennsylvania State Police were contacted by a pistillate who said she tracked her daughter's telephone to an Olive Garden restaurant successful Newington, New Hampshire.

Pennsylvania authorities requested a payment cheque connected the woman, who was wrong the Olive Garden erstwhile Newington constabulary officers arrived astir 11:30 a.m. Police said that erstwhile the pistillate saw the constabulary cruisers, she ran retired of the edifice crying and had cigaret burns connected her legs.

According to the affidavit, Ouellet referred to the pistillate arsenic his "wife" and told constabulary that "her parent was attempting to unit her to articulation a spiritual cult backmost successful Pennsylvania, and she was fed up with dealing with it." This was wherefore she was crying, helium told police. After telling constabulary helium was a "really harmless guy," helium named the "cult" arsenic the "Stars and the Free Masons." He told constabulary that helium and the pistillate had gotten joined connected June 1.

Police said that erstwhile Ouellet was told helium could not talk to his "wife," helium became "nervous." Officers pressed him astir wherefore they had been staying successful assorted locations since their matrimony and not successful his trailer home, and Ouellet reportedly provided inconsistent explanations.

When constabulary spoke to the woman, she had a precise antithetic relationship of what was happening. According to police, the pistillate said Ouellet reached retired to her and threatened to harm her household if she did not travel to New Hampshire to conscionable with him. When she arrived, Ouellet produced a .45-caliber handgun and told her that they were going to the municipality hallway successful Lee, New Hampshire, to get married. If she did not wed him, helium said "he volition marque her pay." Ouellet besides allegedly took the woman's phone. She said she stayed with Ouellet successful his trailer astatine a campground successful Lee until June 5.

According to the affidavit, Ouellet told the pistillate that "the spiritual cults were pursuing them" portion she drove them astir connected June 5, including to Maine, arsenic helium pointed his weapon astatine her from the rider seat. They yet ended up backmost successful New Hampshire. On Saturday morning, the pistillate said, Ouellet sliced her manus with a container cutter arsenic portion of a "satanic ritual."

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Police said they recovered a transcript of the Satanic Bible and different items successful Ouellet's car. He was arrested astatine the Olive Garden connected June 6 and charged with utilizing a deadly limb to forestall idiosyncratic from reporting a crime. The pistillate besides told constabulary she wanted an exigency protective bid against Ouellet, which was granted. Newington constabulary said further charges would apt beryllium filed.

When Ouellet appeared via video successful court connected Monday, helium told the judge, "If you speech to anybody that knows me, I'm not a carnal man." He added, "I'm precise pristine and, you know, forcing her into marriage, that's wholly against my spiritual belief. I wholly judge successful escaped will, and I person ne'er been assertive with her successful ways that were described connected that paper."

Ouellet is being held astatine the Rockingham County Department of Corrections connected preventive detention. His adjacent tribunal day was not publically available.