A Gilroy man kidnapped and threatened his wife Monday night,
infuriated by an argument after he picked her up from work, police
said.
Gilroy – A Gilroy man kidnapped and threatened his wife Monday night, infuriated by an argument after he picked her up from work, police said.
David Garcia Esquival III, 35, was driving his wife home from work about 6:16pm when the two began arguing, police reported. Esquival locked the doors and rolled up the windows, then began driving erratically through town to Mt. Madonna County Park. There, the Gilroy man threatened to kill them both by driving off a cliff, police said. As he approached an unfenced cliff, Esquival accelerated, then stopped, then accelerated again.
His wife spent roughly two hours trapped in his car before escaping, police said. Gilroy Police Sgt. Greg Flippo was unsure Tuesday how she got out of the locked vehicle. The woman ran away and flagged down a passing motorist, who drove her away from the park. The woman subsequently reported the incident to Gilroy police.
Officers arrested Esquival, a resident of Perrelli Street in Gilroy, at 3:25am Tuesday morning at the intersection of Third Street and Wren Avenue, and charged him with kidnapping, false imprisonment, criminal threats and resisting arrest, as well as on a warrant for a parole violation.
