US Forest Service workers held hostage at gunpoint in California forest for hours: Authorities
Negotiators freed the hostages after about 15 hours, and officials said the father and son now face federal charges carrying a possible life sentence.
- On Friday, federal officials announced the arrests of a father and son who held two U.S. Forest Service employees hostage for nearly 15 hours near Mt. Shasta before surrendering early that morning.
- Siskiyou County Sheriff Jeremiah LaRue reported deputies received a call Thursday around 10:55 a.m. regarding two workers zip-tied inside a trailer near Gumboot Lake, where Joseph Charles Henrichsen demanded to speak with the FBI.
- FBI Acting Special Agent Brian Tosh deployed the elite Hostage Rescue Team from Quantico, Virginia, coordinating negotiations that secured the first hostage's release at 1:50 a.m. Friday, with the second worker freed 15 minutes later.
- Joseph Charles Henrichsen and his son, Phoenix Henrichsen, surrendered at 2:30 a.m. Friday; U.S. Attorney General Eric Grant confirmed both men face federal kidnapping charges.
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Two U.S. Forest Service workers were conducting fieldwork in a Northern California forest Thursday morning when they were kidnapped at gunpoint, bound with zip ties, and taken to a remote trailer, authorities said…
2 federal workers were held hostage at gunpoint for hours in a California forest. A father and son are the accused kidnappers
Two US Forest Service workers were doing field work in a northern California forest on Thursday morning when they were abducted at gunpoint, zip-tied and led to a remote trailer, authorities said.
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Forest Service workers taken hostage, held at gunpoint in remote NorCal trailer, feds say
Two U.S. Forest Service employees working in a remote area of the Shasta-Trinity National Forest were kidnapped, zip-tied and held inside a trailer for more than 17 hours before being rescued Friday morning, authorities said.
2 U.S. Forest Service workers released after being kidnapped
SISKIYOU COUNTY, Calif. – Two U.S. Forest Service employees are now home safe after they were kidnapped and held hostage for over 12 hours in a trailer in Shasta-Trinity National Forest’s Gumboot Lake, authorities announced Friday. In a news conference, Siskiyou County Sheriff Jeremiah LaRue stated that on July 16, the employees were conducting fieldwork […]
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