5 charged in Calgary kidnappings that targeted innocent women
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Calgary police have charged five men in a pair of kidnappings last year that targeted innocent victims.
Calgary police have charged five men in a pair of kidnappings last year that targeted innocent victims.
Police launched an investigation on Tuesday, May 2, 2023, after learning a woman in her 20s had been kidnapped from a northeast parking lot.
The victim was heading to her vehicle, parked outside her workplace, when she was approached by an unknown man and forced into his vehicle.
The victim's family was then notified that she had been taken.
During their investigation, police learned a second victim had also been kidnapped several hours after the first, allegedly as an act of retaliation.
The second victim, a woman in her 50s, had been taken from a southeast Calgary home at gunpoint.
Both women were held at separate Calgary homes rented through Airbnb until Thursday, May 4.
For the last seven-and-half months, Toronto resident Heather McArthur has been living out what she describes as her 'worst nightmare.' On Feb. 7, her then three-year-old son Jacob along with his father Loc Phu 'Jay' Le departed for what was supposed to be a week-long visit to Vietnam to celebrate the Lunar New Year with family, McArthur says.