Five people have been charged with kidnapping migrants who had entered the country unlawfully and demanding their families pay a ransom to release them, California officials said. Four of the men have pleaded not guilty after being arraigned, while a fifth remains on the run.
The men, four of them in their 20s and one in his 40s, are accused of taking the migrants in a gas station in Chandler, Arizona last year and moving them all the way to California.
