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Forest Service Hostages Rescued | Kansas City News
Two U.S. Forest Service workers were held hostage for over 15 hours in a remote California forest by a father-son duo who allegedly took them at gunpoint, zip-tied them, and used one of their phones to call out their identities — sparking a massive, multi-agency rescue operation that included an elite FBI team flown in from Virginia. Negotiations stretched into the night as the captors, armed with an AR-15, knives, and threats of grenades, held the hostages in a trailer spotted via drone. The workers were released unharmed at 1:50 AM the next day. Both captors, Joseph Charles Henrichsen and…
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