Thursday, March 11, 1999
Kidnap suspect charged
Florence man led 2-state chase
BY JANE PRENDERGAST
The Cincinnati Enquirer
FORT THOMAS — An abduction and two-state pursuit late Tuesday ended with a Florence man behind bars and officers discovering that his weapon was a BB gun.
The incident began about 11:15 p.m., when a woman called 911 and reported that a friend had just been abducted at gunpoint outside a house on Hill Street.
As officers searched the area for a Mustang the man allegedly drove, they got a call from the woman reported abducted. Autumn Green of Covington managed to use her cell phone to call a friend, who then told police they could find her at Highland Country Club.
Officers from Fort Thomas, Southgate and Highland Heights found Ms. Green as well as her ex-boyfriend, Nicholas J. Brinkman. He came around a corner of the clubhouse, police said, threatening to kill himself and holding to his head what officers thought was a .357-caliber Magnum.
Mr. Brinkman then jumped into the Mustang and fled, first south on U.S. 27, then on Interstate 471 into Ohio.
At Kellogg Avenue, he turned back onto Interstate 275 and returned to Kentucky. He pulled over just past the Dixie Highway exit.
No one was injured. Mr. Brinkman, 27, of Dilcrest Avenue, surrendered.
He faces charges of kidnapping, wanton endangerment, reckless driving, disregarding a traffic-control device, violating a domestic violence order and attempting to elude a police officer.
The latter is called the Partin Law, named for former Covington Officer Mike Partin. Officer Partin fell off a bridge into the Ohio River last year while helping chase a suspect.
The law makes it a felony to endanger law-enforcement officers by running from them.
The charge was filed, Chief Steve Schmidt said, because Mr. Brinkman allegedly tried to run a Northern Kentucky University cruiser off the road.
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