MYSTERY DEEPENS: The suspect in a California family’s kidnapping has been found but is in critical condition; The victims are still missing
The family was kidnapped Monday at gunpoint from a business in Merced, the office said, without providing further details.Detectives obtained a surveillance photo from the ATM in Atwater, a city about 9 miles north of Merced, and “the person is similar in appearance to the surveillance photo from the original kidnapping scene,” the office said in a statement.
Sheriff Vern Warnke of Merced County, California, said a family of four was taken against their will. that the family, which has a trucking company, was taken from an office that they had only opened about a week earlier. The sheriff said detectives believe the kidnapper destroyed unspecified evidence in an attempt to cover his tracks.
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