SUSPECTS SOUGHT IN FOILED KIDNAP PLOT.Byline: Nicholas Grudin Staff Writer WOODLAND HILLS - Police searched Saturday for two more suspects in an elaborate kidnapping kidnapping, in law, the taking away of a person by force, threat, or deceit, with intent to cause him to be detained against his will. Kidnapping may be done for ransom or for political or other purposes. and extortion extortion, in law, unlawful demanding or receiving by an officer, in his official capacity, of any property or money not legally due to him. Examples include requesting and accepting fees in excess of those allowed to him by statute or arresting a person and, with plot that resulted in the dramatic rescue of a Woodland Hills mother and daughter. Meanwhile the family of Jean Antoun, 40, was safe at home Saturday after his wife and daughter spent a harrowing two days in captivity. ``Once the police get these people, I'll breathe a sigh of relief,'' Antoun said. ``These (kidnappers) botched botch tr.v. botched, botch·ing, botch·es 1. To ruin through clumsiness. 2. To make or perform clumsily; bungle. 3. To repair or mend clumsily. n. 1. this thing ... but they could still come after us.'' Antoun's driveway was filled with the cars of family and friends, but he said he and his family remained on edge. He said he wouldn't talk about the case until all the suspects are arrested. ``We're taking care of ourselves,'' he said. Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. police said they found Sylvia Antoun, 41, and her 12-year- old daughter handcuffed in a restroom at a storage facility in Sylmar Friday after the two were forced from their home a day earlier. Authorities arrested Kaveh Kamyab, 40, who was booked on suspicion of kidnapping for ransom and held on $1 million bail at a Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . jail.
According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. police, Jean Antoun walked into the car dealership This article is about car dealerships. For the indie pop band, see Dealership (band). A car dealership or vehicle local distribution is a business that sells new cars and/or used cars at the retail level, based on a dealership contract with an automaker or in South Los Angeles South Los Angeles is the official name for a large geographic and cultural area lying to the southwest and southeast of downtown Los Angeles, California. The area was formerly called South Central Los Angeles, and is still sometimes called South Central. Thursday morning, where he is general manager, and frantically wrote a note telling company executive Darryl Holter that he was wearing a vest containing a bomb and a transmitter that would broadcast his words to men who had taken his family hostage. Antoun wrote that three kidnappers had entered his Woodland Hills home early Thursday and taken his family hostage at gunpoint, demanding he wear the vest and get them $200,000 from the dealership. Holter said he tried to maintain a casual banter. ``We were having a conversation about cars,'' Holter said. ``But I was looking at this piece of paper that had this alarming information - like, 'My wife and daughter are being held hostage, they put explosives on me, they want $200,000.''' Holter called police and the dealership was evacuated. The vest did not contain explosives, said Los Angeles Police Sgt. John Pasquariello. But when police went to the Antoun home, it was empty and the family's Mercedes was gone. The daughter's school said she had not shown up for classes. Detectives said they were focusing on a business dispute and civil lawsuit between Kamyab, who owns a small car-rental agency, and Antoun. They said they found Antoun's car because it was equipped with a satellite tracking device and discretely followed its driver, who later ditched the Mercedes for a sport utility vehicle. The pursuit eventually led detectives to arrest Kamyab in a San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. hotel. After checking a storage facility where police saw the driver stop earlier, they found the woman and girl at the rear of the business. Both were in good physical condition. Police officials said they found in Kamyab's hotel room a copy of a lawsuit he filed stating that Antoun reneged on a deal to send customers Kamyab's way. Jean and Pete Szabo, both 43, who live across the street from the Antouns, expressed relief that no one was harmed. ``They're very nice people,'' Jean Szabo said. Neighbors said they weren't aware that anything had happened in the quiet neighborhood until Thursday afternoon when they spotted police in unmarked vehicles. Staff Writer Lisa M. Sodders and the Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. contributed to this report. |
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