kidnapping

Charges have been expanded to include sexual abuse of a child and burglary against a man arrested in a tense confrontation in Burnet Tuesday, March 28.

In summary, the charges against 55-year-old Danell “Danny” Cude are now aggrivated kidnapping aggrivated sexaul assault and assault of a child and burglary of a hapitation, all state jail felonies and possession of two ounces or less of marijuana.

Burnet police first arrested Cude for sexually assaulting a woman at her apartment while her two small children were inside the home. According to Burnet Police Chief Paul Nelson, Cude allegedly made entry into an apartment in the 800 block of Dixie Drive, where the female victim was alone with her children.

By Alexandria Randolph

Sonja Rai Murdock, known locally for kidnapping her daughter without rights to custody, has been returned to Burnet County authorities and will face adjudication on robbery charges.

Murdock was transferred back to Burnet County custody on Thursday, March 3, following her arrest in Virginia in February. The 28 year-old woman was on the lam for a little over five months after kidnapping her eight-year-old daughter from the girl's guardian, a grandmother living in Horseshoe Bay, on Aug. 18.

Murdock was arrested in Albemarle County, Virginia, by sheriff's deputies on Jan. 8 with the help of Horseshoe Bay Police Department investigators.