A 25-year-old Jamesport man has been charged with first degree kidnapping after he forced his sister to go to Illinois with him.
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Conrad Eugene Kaufman has been charged in Daviess County with kidnapping first degree – facilitating a felony – inflicting injury – terrorizing, class B felony, and is in custody in Macon County, Ill., on their similar charges.
According to the probable cause statement, Kaufman unlawfully confined his sister, Cindy Lynne Kaufman, to his pickup truck at 204 West Auberry Grove in Jamesport around noon on June 26. He transported her to Illinois to prevent her from marrying her fiancé, John Graber, on July 1.
The sheriff’s office received word of the possible kidnapping at 3:59 p.m. on June 26, and conducted a well-being check at 4:37 p.m. Bond on the Daviess County charge is set at $65,000.
In 2013, Conrad Kaufman plead guilty in Daviess County to charges of driving while intoxicated, drug possession, unlawful use of drug paraphernalia, failure to register a vehicle/trailer and operating a vehicle without a valid license.
According to the St. Joseph News Press, John Graber and Cindy Kaufman left their Amish community about a year ago and became part of a Mennonite group. This is to believed to be at the root of this conflict.