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Armed Father-Son Duo Holds Federal Biologists Hostage in Terrifying Standoff | Crime Alert 07.22.26 · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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  Speaker 1: Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news Now.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Sidney Silvanni. Newly unsealed federal court documents reveal harrowing
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  Speaker 2: details of a nearly fifteen hour hostage ordeal deep inside
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  Speaker 2: northern California's Shasta Trinity National Forest Authority say forty nine
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  Speaker 2: year old Joseph Charles Henrickson and his son Phoenix Henrickson
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  Speaker 2: targeted two US Forest Service biologists near Gumboot Lake, forcing
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  Speaker 2: them into a rural trailer at gunpoint. Armed with an
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  Speaker 2: AR fifteen style rifle, the elder Henrickson ordered the biologists
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  Speaker 2: to raise their hands and zip tide their wrists behind
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  Speaker 2: their backs. Investigators alleged Joseph Henriksen then forced one of
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  Speaker 2: the biologists into an official Forest Service pickup truck at gunpoint,
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  Speaker 2: driving several miles toward Lake Siskiyu while carrying his rifle.
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  Speaker 2: Using the victim's cell phone, Henrickson declared, I've taken two
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  Speaker 2: FED biologists hostage from the Forest Service, adding she's zip tied,
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  Speaker 2: her hands are behind her, and I've got live rounds ready.
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  Speaker 2: Henrickson demanded to meet directly with an FBI investigator before
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  Speaker 2: returning the victim to the trailer. Prosecutors say Henrickson repeatedly
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  Speaker 2: separated the hostages during the ordeal, driving off with one
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  Speaker 2: while his son, Phoenix, kept watch over the other captive
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  Speaker 2: inside the trailer. When multi agency law enforcement converged on
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  Speaker 2: the remote campground, Henrickson began communicating over the truck's radio,
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  Speaker 2: refusing to surrender and claiming he had a grenade he
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  Speaker 2: warned he would use if officers did not back away.
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  Speaker 2: At a news briefing, FBI Sacramento Acting Special Agent in
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  Speaker 2: Charge Brian Tosh noted that the situation remained dangerously volatile throughout,
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  Speaker 2: while Siskyu County Sheriff Jeremiah LaRue praised the smooth coordination
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  Speaker 2: between local, state, and federal agencies. Elite negotiators from Quantico
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  Speaker 2: finally secured the hostage's safe release shortly after one in
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  Speaker 2: the morning, with both suspects surrendering shortly after. Following the
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  Speaker 2: harrowing rescue, US Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz expressed his relief.
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  Speaker 3: I want to say how profoundly grateful and believe that
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  Speaker 3: we are there are two employees were released safely. Their
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  Speaker 3: well being continues to be our highest priority. We're staying
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  Speaker 3: close to them and their loved ones, making sure they
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  Speaker 3: have the support and the space that they need after
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  Speaker 3: what they've been through. This has been a frightening experience
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  Speaker 3: for everyone involved, for employees, their families, their coworkers.
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  Speaker 2: FBI Director Cash Ptel praised the bureau's crisis negotiators, SWAT Team,
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  Speaker 2: Evidence Response Team, and Hostage Rescue Team on social media
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  Speaker 2: for resolving the standoff safely. Both Joseph and Phoenix Henrickson
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  Speaker 2: are charged with two counts of kidnapping federal employees, facing
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  Speaker 2: up to life in federal prison if convicted. A federal
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  Speaker 2: magistrate judge ordered both men detained pending in August third
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  Speaker 2: preliminary hearing while investigators search for a motive. More crime
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  Speaker 2: and justice news after this. In Orlando, Mann is behind
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  Speaker 2: bars facing attempted murder charges after a violent assault from
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  Speaker 2: a ride chair dispute. Orlando police report that Jovon Nathan
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  Speaker 2: Mathey allegedly stabbed a ride chair driver on Monday after
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  Speaker 2: the driver refused to provide a ride without an official
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  Speaker 2: request submitted through the ridechair app. Following the stabbing, police
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  Speaker 2: say Matthew fled to a nearby ihop in northeastern Orlando
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  Speaker 2: newly released police body camera footage shows multiple officers surrounding
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  Speaker 2: Mathe inside the cleared out restaurant as he calmly sat
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  Speaker 2: drinking coffee. Get down and lay on the floor.
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  Speaker 3: Do it now, right now, Get on the ground, Lay
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  Speaker 3: on your stomach.
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  Speaker 1: Doing now.
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  Speaker 2: Officers repeatedly ordered Matthe to get on the ground, lie
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  Speaker 2: on the stomach, and place his hands behind his back,
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  Speaker 2: warning that a police canine would bite him if he
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  Speaker 2: failed to comply. Get talk bit now wants handcuffed. Officers
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  Speaker 2: search Mathe and discovered a long object wrapped in a
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  Speaker 2: white cloth inside his sweatpants pocket, identified as a knife.
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  Speaker 2: Yes the law in this pocket? Yeah, I got a
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  Speaker 2: knife here. The Orlando Police Department has not released the
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  Speaker 2: victim's condition, stating it is withholding certain information to protect
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  Speaker 2: the integrity of the active investigation. A former US Army
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  Speaker 2: soldier armed with a collection of weapons was taken into
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  Speaker 2: custody Monday morning following an attack on a federal building
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  Speaker 2: in Lower Manhattan. Authority save Forty three year old Andrew
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  Speaker 2: Arabaca wheeled a cart up to twenty six Federal Plaza
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  Speaker 2: around eight thirty in the morning, doust a stairwell with
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  Speaker 2: gasoline and ignited it, with the firework, sending flames and
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  Speaker 2: smoke pouring up the facade of the building. Investigators say
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  Speaker 2: Aribaca then fired five to seven pellets from an airsoft gun.
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  Speaker 2: The suspect, a former Patriot Missile System mechanic from Poughkeepsie,
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  Speaker 2: had two axes, a hammer, a machete, and knives in
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  Speaker 2: addition to fireworks and gasoline. The building houses federal immigration
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  Speaker 2: processing facilities, as well as FBI and ICE offices. The
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  Speaker 2: Department of Homeland Security described Arabaca as an anti ice rioter,
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  Speaker 2: noting he wheeled a cart with a sign reading ice
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  Speaker 2: off our streets. Prior to the attack, Officials say Arabaca
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  Speaker 2: traveled by subway from Harlem to Penn Station, stayed overnight
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  Speaker 2: near the halland tunnel, and approached the building around five
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  Speaker 2: in the morning. FBI Assistant Director in Charge James Barnacle
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  Speaker 2: addressed the targeted attack.
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  Speaker 1: Mister Arabaca came to armed with bad attentions. I will
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  Speaker 1: say that twenty six Federal Plaza has long been a
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  Speaker 1: target of extremists of terrorists, and today the extremist was
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  Speaker 1: brought here.
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  Speaker 2: Officials say Arabaca admitted he was targeting the building and
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  Speaker 2: was okay with federal employees or civilians getting hurt. A
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  Speaker 2: Federal Protective Service officer tackled Arabaca before the flames could
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  Speaker 2: spread into the building. Several people suffered minor injuries, including
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  Speaker 2: one civilian and two government employees. The FBI Knew New
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  Speaker 2: York Joint Terrorism Task Force is leading the investigation. For
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  Speaker 2: more crime and justice news, be sure to join us
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  Speaker 2: crime alert, I'm Sidney Silvanni.