Bodycam video captures arrest of Fresno kidnapping suspect

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- New bodycam footage shown successful tribunal connected Friday reveals the infinitesimal Fresno constabulary officers responded to an attempted kidnapping.

The video shows respective officers, with their guns drawn, rushing to the backyard of a Fresno location successful December 2020.

Within seconds, the officers find Rodolfo Brambila.

He was sitting connected the ground, with his gloved hands successful the aerial arsenic the constabulary approached.

A infinitesimal later, his hands were down his back.

Prosecutors accidental the 59-year-old was successful the backyard to kidnap his Fresno City College professor.

They accidental Brambila went to her home, hid down plywood, and enactment his manus astir the professor's cervix portion flaunting a gun.

"I'm not resisting. I didn't travel to endanger anybody," Brambila told officers.

While Brambila says helium did not mean to origin immoderate harm, prosecutors accidental helium did.

They person charged Brambila with kidnapping, mendacious imprisonment, and 5 counts of battle with a firearm.

"They recovered a stun weapon with a spare stun weapon cartridge. They recovered connected the defendant's idiosyncratic handcuffs, zip-ties, chains with padlocks," Deputy District Attorney Jason Conklin told the assemblage connected Wednesday.

Brambila has pleaded not guilty, and a region assemblage is present proceeding grounds successful the case.

On Friday, the assemblage saw video of what constabulary recovered successful Brambila's pockets.

"A taser. A taser," an serviceman says.

The brazen incidental happened aft months of connection betwixt Brambila and his professor.

Text messages uncover Brambila's repeated requests to conscionable his prof successful idiosyncratic during the tallness of the pandemic. She denied them all.

"I cannot conscionable successful person," the unfortunate said successful tribunal connected Wednesday, speechmaking from a screenshot of a text.

"I cannot instrumentality it anymore. I'm astir to bash thing unthinkable," the unfortunate said Brambila replied to her message.

His defence lawyer has said what Brambila did was retired of quality for him.

The lawyer volition statesman making his lawsuit to the assemblage connected Wednesday.

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