A Florida man who was kidnapped and forced to drive a vehicle by his three alleged kidnappers was clever when it came to saving himself. He deliberately violated driving rules in front of some sheriff’s deputies to get their attention.
“It worked,” the Martin County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement. “Once stopped, the victim, who was afraid to say he was being kidnapped, had a look of despair when the deputy gave him a warning and started to send him on his way.”
The desperate man also used “a hand motion in hopes that the deputy would pick up on his fear,” the statement read.
“The deputy did, and ordered the man to step away from the car and away from the three other men who were sitting inside the vehicle.”
Inside the vehicle, the deputy, Cameron White retrieved guns, knives, and “a large amount of cash,” a department spokeswoman confirmed.
The group of three, identified as Tsdekiel Sellers, 22, of Atlanta, Benyahveen Radcliffe, 25, of Buffalo, and Kashaveeyah Bragdon, 22, of Tallahassee. The trio has been charged with multiple counts including kidnapping, carjacking, armed burglary, and home invasion.
The sheriff’s office did not identify the victim, who lives in Port St. Lucie. However, the department said the suspects’ targeted him after he “boasted about his dog-breeding business online.”
“The trio posed as interested dog buyers,” the sheriff’s department statement said. “When they arrived at the victim’s home, they robbed and assaulted the victim and demanded he hand over the large amounts of cash he boasted about.”
The alleged home invasion occurred early last week. Over two days, the suspects moved the dog breeder to several locations before they “forced the victim to drive to a location which required them to travel through Martin County,” the sheriff’s office said.
“Fortunately, it was at the same time our Traveling Criminal response team was on patrol monitoring the highways,” the statement said.
That was around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday, and White was parked with his partner on Interstate 95 South.
“We observed a car that was traveling above the speed limit and had really dark window tint,” White added.
White authorities pulled the vehicle over after the driver swerved across multiple lanes.
The alleged kidnappers were arrested with the assistance of the Port St. Lucie Police Department.
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