A judge ruled Monday that 52-year-old Vadim Vorobyov, who is facing charges of risk of injury to a child, first-degree larceny, first-degree reckless endangerment and second-degree kidnapping, will be held on a $800,000 bond.

On March 29, Vorobyov allegedly stole a vehicle while a child was inside, prompting a frantic search for Liam David Pagan, a 3-year-old boy with autism.

An Amber Alert was issued for Pagan, who was found at a hotel in Windsor at 10:42 a.m. on Friday. Investigators found Vorobyov, nearby, according to Connecticut State Police.

State police said they tracked the stolen red Toyota Camry to Windsor, where the Enfield Police Department deployed their K-9 Dunkin, who traced a scent to the front of a Dollar Tree store.

Inside, they found and arrested Vorobyov, according to state police.

Vorobyov was brought into a courtroom at Hartford Superior Court in a tan prison-issue jumpsuit with shackles on his wrists and ankles just before 1 p.m. Monday.

State prosecutors said plans are in the works to extradite him to Massachusetts.

A bail commissioner Monday suggested he be held on a $500,000 bond, while the state countered for a higher bond of $1 million due to the serious nature of the charges.

The judge ruled that he be held on a $800,000 bond with conditions that he have no contact with the child or the child’s family.

The bail commissioner said Vorobyov has no criminal record in Connecticut but has a record in Massachusetts on charges of assault and battery in 2016. In an older case dated back to 1993, he was convicted of stealing a vehicle, the commissioner said.

A hearing will be held to screen his case for transfer to Part A court, where major crimes are heard. He is due to return to court on April 18.

The Massachusetts State Police said after his capture on Friday that the alleged abduction occurred when Vorobyov tried to make off with the car.

“Preliminary investigation suggests that at approximately 8:40 AM VOROBYOV came across the Toyota Camry as it was parked outside a residence on Exchange Street in Chicopee with the motor running and the child in the backseat,” Mass State Police said in a statement. “He entered the vehicle and drove away.”

Information from the Boston Herald was used in this report.

Robert Nichols was sentenced Wednesday by Judge Kevin C. Doyle at Superior Court in Hartford to 20 years in prison, executed after he serves 10 years, plus another five years on probation, according to court officials.

A jury found Nichols guilty of first-degree assault and two counts of risk of injury to a child in June after a 10-month-old baby living in his home suffered potentially life-threatening head trauma, according to court records and the state Division of Criminal Justice.

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At his trial, one witness testified that she saw Nichols wrap the baby in a tight swaddle and slam him onto the floor numerous times, while another said they saw Nichols put the baby in a sink full of ice water, causing the baby to thrash and hit his head, according to court records.

Nichols was the pastor of the Word of Faith Ministry in East Hartford and lived with a number of his followers in a home that the ministry owned in Manchester.

Witnesses testified that Nichols claimed he communicated directly with God and used that to control his followers, including the baby’s parents. An arrest warrant for Nichols named him and the parents as the baby’s main caregivers.

In the warrant for his arrest, police said Nichols demanded obedience from his followers, including the baby boy, who “rebelled” against Nichols, and became the focus of a brutal disciplinary regime in August 2013.

The main witness to the alleged abuse of the child told police that Nichols labeled the boy “rebellious” and needed to stay with him until he could “get the rebellion out of him,” the arrest warrant affidavit said.

Nichols also sprayed the baby’s face with the sink sprayer until the child could not breathe, the warrant affidavit says.

Police in Manchester were alerted after a pediatrician examined the boy and evaluations by the Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect Division at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center showed the baby’s enlarged head was most likely the result of abuse when he was 9 to 12 months old, according to a warrant for Nichols’ arrest.

In an unrelated case, another jury found Nichols guilty of two counts of fourth-degree sexual assault and risk of injury to a minor on Sept. 27, 2022, and he was sentenced to 20 years in prison, suspended after eight years served, and 10 years of probation.

Nichols was found guilty of sexually and physically assaulting an 11-year-old boy who came forward after Nichols was arrested and charged with assaulting the baby, police said.

Nichols, who was running an after-school program connected to the Michael D. Fox Elementary School in Hartford in 2010, abused the boy after offering to let the boy stay with him for the summer to help his mother discipline him, records show.

In that case, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison to be suspended after he serves eight years, followed by a decade on probation.

The sentences will run consecutively, court officials said.

Franklin Robinson, 40, was found guilty on multiple charges including murder and conspiracy to commit murder in a plan that led to the death of 56-year-old Mabel Martinez Antongiorgi while she was in her craft room in her house on Orange Street in April 2022, according to Waterbury police and the Division of Criminal Justice.

According to evidence presented at his trial, Robinson was jealous of a man who had said hello to his girlfriend and conspired to kill him. He fought with the man and his friends on the morning of April 9, 2022, and then recruited two people he knew to find them and shoot them, officials said.

That afternoon, Robinson and his two associates found the car that they wanted to target parked on Orange Street, where Martinez Antongiorgi lived with her husband of more than 30 years. They fired 22 bullets at the car, officials said.

All of the bullets missed their intended target, but one flew through the wall of a pale green house on the street and fatally struck Martinez Antongiorgi while she was ironing, according to police and court records.

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Her son Juan Luis Mercado Martinez found her dead on the floor of her carefully designed craft room, which was painted purple and filled with crafting and sewing supplies to suit her many talents.

Martinez Antongiorgi lived in the home with her husband, where she helped care for the 7-month-old grandson. They had raised three children: Juan Luis Mercado Martinez, his younger brother Herbito Mercado Martinez and their youngest and only daughter, Yarimar Mercado Martinez, an Olympic rifle shooter for Puerto Rico.

Forensic evidence revealed that one of Robinson’s associates fired the bullet that hit Martinez Antongiorgi, but Robinson was found criminally liable for murder since he had recruited the additional shooters and identified the target. Robinson was convicted under precedent set in the case of Pinkerton v. United States, which held that a conspirator is accountable for the actions of a co-conspirator if their criminal actions stemmed from the conspiracy, officials said.

Another bystander was also hurt and later recovered from their injuries, records show.

Robinson is set to be sentenced on Nov. 1 in Waterbury Superior Court.

During his last few seconds on the stage at the summit, Biden said “God Save the Queen, man” to a crowd made up mostly of gun reform activists, gun violence survivors and families of shooting victims.

Biden traveled to West Hartford on Friday to celebrate one year since the passage of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, the most significant gun law passed by Congress in 30 years.

After his statement stirred questions and was trending on social media, a spokesperson for the White House said Friday evening that the president was responding to someone in the crowd when he made the comment.

“He couldn’t do the full ropeline due to weather, and was commenting to someone in the crowd,” White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Olivia Dalton said via email.

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Before his statement, the president told the crowd that his team had informed him of incoming inclement weather that would keep him from mingling. He stayed for about 10 minutes after finishing his keynote speech to talk with attendees and pose for a few photos.

The president left the University of Hartford shortly after to travel to Greenwich for a fundraiser to support his campaign for reelection. According to the White House, Air Force One touched down in Westchester, New York, about 5 p.m.

Dalton issued the statement about his remarks via email around 5:30 p.m.

Biden’s critics were quick to question the statement, which followed his speech calling for bans on assault rifles and high-capacity magazines, universal background checks and safe storage requirements.

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