Lakewood, NJ - Man Indicted on Kidnapping Charges

Lakewood, NJ - An Ocean County grand jury has handed up a nine-count indictment charging a 21-year-old Lakewood sprinkler installer with the kidnapping of a 20-year-old Lakewood woman, abducted in May after leaving a Lakewood gym.  

The grand jury handed up an indictment charging Brandon J. Fritz of Delaware Trail with two counts of kidnapping, two counts of aggravated assault, and robbery of the Lakewood woman on May 7. 
He abducted the victim after she left the TrimGym Fitness Center on Madison Avenue, in the rear of ShopRite Plaza in Lakewood. She was driven around for about seven hours, assault in a wooded area and dropped off in the same place where she was abducted while investigators were still on the scene.

Fritz is being held in the Ocean County Jail in Toms River to await trial. His bail is set at $1,450,000.