Tucson man gets 13 years in prison for armed hostage-taking conspiracy

A southern Arizona man was sentenced to more than a decade in prison for his role in an armed hostage-taking conspiracy involving illegal aliens.In April 2022, Homeland Security Investigations received a tip from someone in New York that two of his cousins, who were in the country illegally, were being held hostage. The tipper said their captors were demanding a $16,000 ransom to release them."The armed captors confiscated their cellphones and then transported the six aliens to a house where they were held for multiple days in a room where the door was screwed shut each night to prevent escape. The two cousins were the final hostages to have their ransom paid," the United States Attorney's Office said. The two men were allegedly part of a group of six people abducted in the desert by armed men after crossing the U.S. border.

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