Crime & Safety

See What Olivia Ambrose's Fateful Trip Looked Like

From Hennessy's Bar to Victor Pena's Walford Way apartment is less than 2 miles. This is how Pena got Olivia Ambrose there, police say.

CHARLESTOWN, MA — While Victor Pena was being arraigned in Charlestown District Court early Wednesday afternoon, two police officers milled around their cruiser and a few locals trudged through the slushy streets outside his apartment at 49 Walford Way. The cruiser and a single string of caution tape was all that made the apartment complex stand out from any of the other buildings in the Bunker Hill public housing complex. Without them, one would never guess it was the endpoint of a fateful trip for Olivia Ambrose.

Pena, 38, was arrested Tuesday and charged with kidnapping in connection to Ambrose's disappearance late Saturday night. At his arraignment a few blocks away from where police found the two, a hysterical Pena was held without bail and ordered to undergo a mental health evaluation.


49 Walford Way

Police laid out a timeline of what they said happened Saturday night.

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Ambrose was last seen leaving Hennessy's Bar on Union Street around 11 p.m. with a man who was later cleared in the investigation. Surveillance video spotted Ambrose, who police said appeared intoxicated, about 40 minutes later being watched and followed by two men near North and Congress streets. The two men joined her in the Congress Street and State Street area. One of the men has since been cleared, but the other, later identified as Pena, put his arm around her and directed her to State Street station.

The next time Ambrose and Pena were seen was on surveillance footage was leaving Community College station in Charlestown. Finally, some 10 minutes later, Ambrose and Pena were spotted walking toward Bartlett Street. Her phone's last signal indicated she was near the Bunker Hill public housing development.

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From Hennessy's to Walford Way is less than 2 miles. Police canvassed the area in an exhaustive search that led them to Pena's apartment Tuesday.

Below is a map with video of the key locations from the timeline police established. Click on the number to get video and more information.


Photos, video by Mike Carraggi, Patch. Photos of Ambrose, Pena from Boston Police.

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