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The fugitive boyfriend of a Montgomery County judge has been captured after police said he assaulted and kidnapped the judge.
Twenty-four-year-old Rickley Joshua Senning, a convicted felon, was arrested on charges of false imprisonment, kidnapping, auto theft and two counts of second-degree assault, police said.
It’s unclear how or where police found Senning, but police were expected to provide more details later today.
Police said Senning was living with 53-year-old Circuit Judge Audrey Creighton for three weeks before he assaulted Creighton and forced her into her BMW and ordered her to take him to Gaithersburg, police said.
On the way there, Creighton managed to fight off her attacker, then ran to a Harris Teeter grocery store for help, police said.
Senning grabbed the judge by her hair and unsuccessfully tried to drag her back into her car, police said. She escaped and called 911.
He then drove away in the judge’s car, but crashed a few blocks away. He was taken by ambulance to a hospital but left before police could question him.
Creighton at first told police that she and Senning that they were merely friends, but in her application for a restraining order described the relationship as “intimate.” She said Senning also lived with her for three months last summer, before moving back in with her in May.
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.