A man is facing numerous charges after he reportedly assaulted and tied up a woman at her home, and later vandalized her residence and another property.
The Greene County Sheriff’s Department was summoned to a home on Van Hill Road just after midnight Sunday after a woman said that 30-year-old Benjamin Gaby had fired a shot through her bedroom window. The woman locked herself in the bathroom and said she could hear Gaby revving his engine, and she feared he would use a ladder to climb up to her location. It was later determined that rocks had been thrown through the window of the home.
A call was then received from a man who said that he believed that Gaby was going to try and burn down his house on Bernard Road. More officers went to that residence and stopped Gaby as he was leaving. Deputies found an empty gas can on the ground and noticed gasoline had been poured on the ground and on vehicles. A loaded shotgun was found in the passenger seat of Gaby’s vehicle, along with a container with a crystal like substance and a vial that held a suboxone pill.
The victim later told officers that Gaby had beaten her up on Thursday and bound her hands and feet. Later, Gaby allegedly slammed the woman’s head into the floor and ran a knife over her back multiple times. The woman said she was kept tied up until Friday, when Gaby allowed her to leave.
Gaby has been charged with aggravated kidnapping, aggravated assault, aggravated sexual battery, unlawful possession of a weapon, vandalism, possession of methamphetamine, possession of a schedule 3 drug and possession of drug paraphernalia. Damage to the Van Hill Road property was estimated at $3,500.
