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Hostage Situation in Remote Forest | Texas News
Two U.S. Forest Service employees were held hostage for 15 harrowing hours in a remote California trailer by a father-son duo who zip-tied them and used one’s phone to call out their identities as “feds.” A massive multi-agency rescue unfolded, including an FBI hostage team flown in from Virginia, drones that located the trailer, and tense negotiations that ended at 1:50 AM when the victims were freed unharmed. The suspects, Joseph and Phoenix Henrichsen, face kidnapping charges; Joseph, who allegedly brandished an AR-15 and claimed grenades, has a prior dismissed hate crime charge. The…
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