US forest service workers kidnapped, ziptied for hours by father-son duo: California AG

A father-son duo successful California allegedly kidnapped a brace of U.S. wood work workers, U.S. Attorney Eric Grant said successful a property conference. 

Joseph Charles Henrichsen, 49, and his lad Phoenix Henrichsen allegedly took the 2 national workers hostage wrong a trailer successful a agrarian country adjacent Mt. Shasta.

The FBI deployed a hostage negotiator from Quantico to coordinate with section authorities. The authorities negotiated the hostages' merchandise aft hours of talks with the kidnappers.

The elder Henrichsen demanded to talk with the FBI aft ziptying the hostages and holding them wrong a trailer adjacent Gumboot Lake successful bluish California's Shasta Trinity National Forest. 

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The elder fishy allegedly demanded to talk with the FBI aft tying up the 2 victims. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

A Forest Services worker called authorities soon earlier 11 a.m. section clip connected Thursday to notify them of the kidnapping. The FBI secured the merchandise of 1 of the hostages astatine 1:50 a.m. connected Friday and the 2nd hostage 15 minutes later. The alleged kidnappers surrendered themselves to the FBI astatine 2:30 a.m. 

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"I’m grateful beyond words that some of our Forest Service employees taken hostage connected the Shasta-Trinity National Forest are location safe," Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz said successful a statement.

"This was a frightening acquisition for everyone involved. Their well-being continues to beryllium our highest priority. We’re staying adjacent to them and their loved ones, making definite they person the enactment and the abstraction that they request aft what they’ve been through," helium concluded. 

Schultz said that helium was "grateful beyond words" that the employees were safely released and capable to reunite with their families. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

The FBI does not yet cognize what the kidnappers' information is oregon wherefore they requested to talk with the FBI.

"The United States Attorney's Office intends to complaint some men by transgression ailment with kidnapping a national worker nether Title 18, United States Code, Section 1201(a)(5)," Grant said during a Friday property conference.

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