Pregnant woman tied up at Richland home. Men threaten to inject her with meth and Drano

A 29-year-old man is accused of helping tie up a friend’s pregnant girlfriend because she was suspected of stealing fentanyl pills.

During the hours-long imprisonment inside a Richland home, Chad C.W.M. Patterson allegedly put a pillowcase over the woman’s head, threatened to kill her and suggested injecting her with drain cleaner.

Patterson now is locked up on $50,000 bail on one charge of first-degree kidnapping.

The victim’s boyfriend and father of her unborn child, Alec L. Nakonieczny, has not yet been arrested. Prosecutors plan to charge him with first-degree kidnapping with a domestic violence allegation and deadly weapon enhancement.

Members of the Tri-City Regional SWAT team surrounded the home for four hours on July 1 after Richland police received a domestic violence call.

Investigators believed the suspects barricaded themselves inside and were armed, but the Sanford Avenue home was empty once they got inside.

Patterson was arrested in the early hours of July 3.

He faces a Sept. 8 trial in Benton County Superior Court after pleading innocent to the kidnapping charge.

According to court documents, Nakonieczny was at the Sanford Avenue house pet-sitting for the homeowner. The victim was staying there with her boyfriend.

Nakonieczny and Patterson arrived at the home after midnight July 1, and Nakonieczny accused the woman of stealing from his stash of pain pills, which he had been selling, documents said.

The woman denied the allegation. She then was strip-searched and restrained with zip ties and duct tape.

Nakonieczny had ordered Patterson to get the roll of tape, which was used around the woman’s wrists, knees and ankles, court documents said.

That’s when Patterson allegedly covered her head with the pillowcase.

Nakonieczny then punched her in the head, leaving her feeling dizzy, and threatened her with a knife before using it to cut off some of her hair, documents said.

The woman reported to police that her alleged captors threatened to kill her while she was restrained, and she was fearful they would go through with it.

She also said she heard Nakonieczny talking about injecting her with methamphetamine, while Patterson brought up the idea of using Drano, court documents show.

The woman was able to escape just after 10 a.m. and ran to a neighbor’s house, where she asked someone to call 911.

She was crying hysterically, had marks on her wrists and was missing a chunk of hair when officers arrived, documents said.

Police did not know Nakonieczny and Patterson had left the home after the alleged attack when dozens of officers gathered in the neighborhood about 11 a.m.

Once inside later that afternoon, investigators had a search warrant to gather evidence of the kidnapping, including zip ties, duct tape in a garbage can with hair stuck to it and a knife.