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Via DC Crime Stories

A Montgomery County judge escaped a kidnapping by her convicted felon boyfriend, and police are scrambling to find the 24-year-old fugitive, according to police and court records.

Police say Rickley Joshua Senning assaulted Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Audrey Creighton at her house Monday night, then forced her into her BMW and ordered her to take him to Gaithersburg.

On the way there, the 53-year-old judge got away by fighting off her boyfriend, then jumping from her car, police said. She then ran to a Harris Teeter grocery store to call 911, police said.

Senning tried to drag her back by her hair, then got back into the judge’s car and sped away. He crashed the car on Darnestown Road near Bondy Lane, and was taken to a hospital but left before police were able to talk to him.

On Tuesday, Creighton applied for a restraining order against Senning, describing their relationship as that of intimate partners. She wrote that Senning had moved back into her home after living with her from June to August in 2013.

The judge’s boyfriend has an extensive rap sheep. He has convictions for assault, burglary, auto theft and firearms violations. Before she became a judge, Creighton represented Senning, then 19, in a trespassing case. She worked for the public defender’s office.

Creighton was appointed to the Circuit Court for Montgomery County in February 2014 by Governor Martin O’ Malley. Before that she served as a district court judge for the county, beginning in 2010.

Senning is wanted on charges of kidnapping, false imprisonment, auto theft, and two counts of second degree assault.