CA - 4 Family Members Kidnapped From Business, Merced County, Oct 2022 *arrest*

[LaborDayRN]

Thank you. I tried to enlarge that picture which I'm not very good at and I swear I see cans and pine cones. LOL. Maybe someone who can do this better could get a good shot. I also noticed the pic with the mask on those strings to his sweatshirt look all tangled up and yet they are neatly laying there when he is captured without the hood on. ( FYI, that would take me 45 minutes to fix and with some choice words).
Also, some are saying they could have been taken from the home but the pics show a marked parking lot with cement bolders. Do they live in an apartment/condo, it looks like a business to me. Any chance these pictures were not taken the day of the kidnapping? I can't recall if LE said so or not.

It looks like a couple of plastic bottles and perhaps a few cans in the bag to me. I wonder if this guy may be homeless. Many homeless collect bottle and cans here. ???

 

[Knox]

@Knox
Do you think the info in my post (#69) is incorrect? (I can ask that it be removed if so). It shows he has 9 trucks.

No you're good, that tied to the SOS records.

 

[LauraAnne]

Surely the motive to kidnap this whole family wasn't just to use their ATM card?

 

[insearchoflight]

Not good at all unless he was working with an accomplice who still has the family. Otherwise oh no

 

[Knox]

It looks like a couple of plastic bottles and perhaps a few cans in the bag to me. I wonder if this guy may be homeless. Many homeless collect bottle and cans here. ???

But in the photo from Twitter, it looks like he has a gun in one hand and cuffs maybe in the other? Too clean for a homeless guy IMO.

 

[Erutan]

This is not going to end well, I fear. That perp is not keeping them safe somewhere. He looks like what I would imagine s

Of note: Suspect attempted to use one of the victim's atm cards. He attempted to take his own life prior to law enforcement contact. The family is still missing, and a presser will be held at 10 tomorrow morning.

This looks like it will become the worst case scenario.

bolding mine.
Oh, no.

Please let that little family and the relative be found safe.

 

[Frankie Hellis]

I think it is the one from Atwater.

 

[KonaHonu]

I think it is the one from Atwater.

His current address is in Merced but he has moved around a lot in the area - Atwater, Chowchilla, Winton, etc. Spent time in Deuel Vocational Institution in Tracy but I don't know what for.

 

[Frankie Hellis]

His current address is in Merced but he has moved around a lot in the area - Atwater, Chowchilla, Winton, etc. Spent time in Deuel Vocational Institution in Tracy but I don't know what for.

Right. It looks like he might have a wife.

Edit: I have an address but the property record costs money to obtain

 

[samsmom]

ICKEdMeL updates on person of interest

 

[swanniee11]

The critical condition makes me sick, self inflicted gunshot wound maybe? What are those dark spots on his t-shirt? paint? Wonder what he does for a living and how this family became targets.

 

[realanastasia]

If the motive was actually robbery, there'd be little reason to torch the uncle's truck unless there was a need to cover up evidence of a more serious crime that happened in/around it--otherwise, I imagine, a person hard up for money would just sell it quickly and quietly.
I fear the worst has happened to this poor little family and just hope this coward actually pulls through so he can be forced to answer for his crimes.

 

[Curiousobserver]

I hate to point this out, but there is a large landfill on the way to where the truck was found on fire.

 

[MassGuy]

I hate to point this out, but there is a large landfill on the way to where the truck was found on fire.

I think that's way too soon for anything like that to have happened, but who knows.

 

[sasha17]

This article has confirmation that the family is Sikh: Person of interest in Merced kidnapping identified, in custody: family remains missing

Perhaps they ran the business out of their home but they must have also had some kind of office with a lobby/front desk because this article says the wife of the kidnapped relative found out about the situation when she "got a call from the business saying no one was at the front desk." ‘Please let them go safely’: Search for family of 4 kidnapped continues in Merced County

 

[athenna]

This is horrific. I wonder what the motive could have possibly been.

 

[asmi106082]

The car to the right is a "black 2020 Dodge Ram truck", same as the uncle's car found set on fire.

The picture on the left is from Google maps in the "800 Block of South Highway 59" where Merced police said the family went missing from. Short guy keeps hiding his face as the Google car drives by...

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Nice find!

 

[savagewoman]

Central California kidnapping: Person of interest in custody, 4 family members still not found

this article states: BBM
"Warnke wouldn't identify the type of business the family was taken from but Naindeep Singh, executive director of Jakara Movement, a Punjabi Sikh community organization in central California, said their family told him they were taken from their gas station and convenience store."

 

[boomburger]

Its always concerning when suspects try to take their own lives.

 

[nao]

Moo... targeted for gold jewelry?