Two brothers and another man are facing federal charges after a kidnapping that took some bizarre twists. Federal officials say Tuesday the suspects kidnapped a man Oct. 13 outside outside his apartment in Plantation, Florida, but realized they had mistaken him for his coworker.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Two brothers and another man are facing federal charges following a kidnapping that took some bizarre twists, including an attempted waterboarding when they tried to make the victim help them lure the intended target, federal officials said Tuesday.
Eventually, they learned they had the wrong person, mistaking him for his coworker, who was the intended target. He told police the men threatened him, put an electric drill to his skin and pointed a firearm at him, before dousing him with water in what prosecutors said was a simulated waterboarding. The victim told them he thought he was going to drown.
Instead, at 2:08 a.m. on Oct. 14, the man phoned in a bomb threat in an effort to get a rapid police response to the building, the complaint said.
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