News & Politics - 15-Year-Old Kidnapped Over $50 Dispute

Lain · 03-20-2005, 12:59 AM

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Boy allegedly kidnapped over $50 dispute

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Link: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/nation...llar%20Hostage

FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Three teenagers kidnapped a 15-year-old and ordered his father to drop off a $50 ransom at a Taco Bell restaurant, authorities said. The father called police instead, and the teens were arrested.

Police said the dispute began over $50 that David Gibbs, 15, owed to Joseph Garrett, 17. Gibbs went to Garrett's apartment Tuesday, and Garrett asked him to repay the money, police said. Gibbs couldn't pay up, so Garrett and two other teens punched him in the face and held him at knifepoint, then forced him to phone his father and ask him to drop the money in a planter at the Taco Bell, police said.

Ralph Gibbs called police, who set up undercover officers at the restaurant. Two people who took the cash told police that Garrett had paid them $10 for the deed, and they agreed to call Garrett to arrange a meeting at a Goodwill store.

Police who went there found 16-year-old Samuel Aidoo standing by a trash bin and found he was carrying a knife. Garrett, who was at his nearby apartment with the son, saw the officers and fled, police said. The son then left the apartment.

Aidoo, 16, and Victoria Aidoo, 15, were arrested Wednesday. Garrett turned himself in the next day.

It's amazing what kids do these days. Er...

I didn't mean that in a good way people. But still, just for a $50 bill? That's a first. That, and that's the shortest amount of money people would ask for a random.

sick little jag · 03-20-2005, 02:44 PM

those kids win an award for being the biggest effin retards ever.

**sum1** · 03-20-2005, 03:18 PM

JW77 · 03-20-2005, 05:59 PM

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Originally Posted by sick little jag

those kids win an award for being the biggest effin retards ever.

Yup, I would agree with that.

JohannafromIHJ · 03-21-2005, 07:39 AM

Those kids must really struggle to make ends meet (financially, that is), if they're willing to kidnap someone over a mere $50. Either that, or they're just really dumb.

roswellain_chick16 · 03-21-2005, 11:58 PM

Im going to go with the latter - ridiculous!!!!


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