Straight out of a movie:
An elaborate kidnapping plot that targeted a Wake Forest, North Carolina, man ended with his dramatic rescue in Atlanta by an FBI hostage squad about midnight Wednesday, law enforcement said Thursday.
Frank Arthur Janssen is receiving medical treatment but is safe after being held captive for five days by five people who face federal kidnapping charges, according to law enforcement officials who held a news conference in Wake Forest.
The kidnappers sent demands to Janssen's family "for the benefit" of Kelvin Melton, an inmate at Polk Correctional Institution in Butner, North Carolina, read an affidavit in support of a search warrant related to criminal complaints against the defendants.
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Janssen's daughter, an assistant district attorney in Wake County, had prosecuted Melton, officials said.
The affidavit details threats sent via text to Janssen's wife and daughters, a drama that underscores Strong's description of the kidnappers at the news conference. He called them "very dangerous people."
On Monday at 1:51 a.m., Janssen's wife, Christie, began to receive text messages from a phone number with an Atlanta area code, the affidavit says. The messages said her husband had been kidnapped.
One text said her husband was in the trunk of a car en route to California.
"Get a bag, put it over his head, and stuff something in his mouth."
http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/10/justice/kidnap-fbi-atlanta/
The FBI's 'elite' HRT saved the guy.
Good job FBI!
An elaborate kidnapping plot that targeted a Wake Forest, North Carolina, man ended with his dramatic rescue in Atlanta by an FBI hostage squad about midnight Wednesday, law enforcement said Thursday.
Frank Arthur Janssen is receiving medical treatment but is safe after being held captive for five days by five people who face federal kidnapping charges, according to law enforcement officials who held a news conference in Wake Forest.
The kidnappers sent demands to Janssen's family "for the benefit" of Kelvin Melton, an inmate at Polk Correctional Institution in Butner, North Carolina, read an affidavit in support of a search warrant related to criminal complaints against the defendants.
...
Janssen's daughter, an assistant district attorney in Wake County, had prosecuted Melton, officials said.
The affidavit details threats sent via text to Janssen's wife and daughters, a drama that underscores Strong's description of the kidnappers at the news conference. He called them "very dangerous people."
On Monday at 1:51 a.m., Janssen's wife, Christie, began to receive text messages from a phone number with an Atlanta area code, the affidavit says. The messages said her husband had been kidnapped.
One text said her husband was in the trunk of a car en route to California.
"Get a bag, put it over his head, and stuff something in his mouth."
http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/10/justice/kidnap-fbi-atlanta/
The FBI's 'elite' HRT saved the guy.
Good job FBI!
