Cops: Veteran, 81, held hostage in New York motel for years

HIGHLANDS, N.Y. (AP) — A New York man is accused of holding an 81-year-old Marine Corps veteran hostage in an upstate motel next door to a police station for at least four years in order to steal his benefits checks.

Forty-three-year-old Perry Coniglio was arrested Tuesday is his room adjoining the victim's at a motel in Highlands, just feet away from a building housing police and ambulance services in the Hudson Valley town.