Federal prosecutors in Miami, Florida have secured an indictment against six people, including two Bay Area residents, on charges of kidnapping two children and two adults and attempting to collect $100,000 ransom for them, court records show.
The ordeal ended with all four kidnapping victims being found unharmed, but authorities say that during the seven-hour ordeal their abductors threatened to kill them and sent photos of them to loved ones in order to coax out the ransom. In the end, the victims were realized after the suspects realized authorities had been alerted, according to court records.
Mohammead Ahmed Khan, Christopher Alan Baird, Joe Nathan Hightower, Luu Nguyen Dieu Hong, Joseph Christopher Ricard, and Trang Nguyen now face additional charges of conspiracy and kidnapping, while Hong, Ricard, Baird, and Nguyen are charged with stalking and possessing guns in furtherance of a violent crime, court records show.
