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The driver of the green BMW was returning to the car with his three passengers after a traffic stop last week in Florida, when he put his hand behind his back and used his fingers to make a gun gesture. He was trying to get the attention of the sheriff’s deputies, who stopped him for speeding, he later told police. He was in danger.
An MP noticed the sign and called the man. The speeding was intentional, said the driver of the policeman – the passengers held him hostage and this was his first chance to get help.
“Deputies searched the vehicle and found weapons, knives and large sums of cash,” the Martin County Sheriff said in a Facebook post.
Arrest reports say the three passengers robbed the victim, who is a dog breeder, and forced him to drive under gunfire to pick up the puppies at Fort Lauderdale.
Men – Tsdekiel Sellers, 22; Benyahvin Radcliffe, 25; and Kashavia Bragdon, 22 – have been arrested and charged with several counts, including kidnapping, aggravated assault and unlicensed firearms, according to court records. They are being held in Martin County Jail and do not yet have lawyers, according to court records.
Radcliffe and Sellers first interacted with the victim at his home in Port St. Lucy on June 14, according to a report from the Port St. Lucy Police Department, which helped the investigation. After Bragden left them, the two tried to break into the victim’s house, but the victim “developed a trick” to get them out, he told officials. He did not contact law enforcement after the incident.
The trio reportedly returned the next day at around 2.30pm. The victim told police he heard a “loud bang” and then saw the handle of his back door on the floor. Atlanta’s Sellers and Buffalo’s Radcliffe are said to have infiltrated and been armed. They “started searching the residence”, arrest The report says he puts things in several luggage bags, including $ 10,000 in cash, and asks the victim about the dogs he keeps.
After being told that the dogs were at his aunt’s house in Fort Lauderdale, Sellers and Radcliffe forced the victim into his car and instructed him to drive, the report said. Bragden, who is from Tallahassee and allegedly drove the other two suspects to the victim’s house, told police he followed them in his car.
After a few stops, all three suspects got into the victim’s car and allegedly instructed him to drive to Fort Lauderdale so he could pick up the puppies. That’s when the dog breeder came up with his plan, the report said.
Knowing that officers often patrolled an overpass on Interstate 95 in Martin County, the victim decided to drive 15 miles above the speed limit to get their attention, he told staff. A deputy sheriff stopped them around 8:40 p.m. and told the men to get out of the BMW while another deputy walked around the car in a K-9. Officers then issued a written warning to the victim, saying he and his passengers could leave, the report said.
The victim then signaled by hand, the deputy said.
“He said the passengers in the car had been holding him against his will for several days [he] he was unable to call 911, “the report said, adding that the victim had told them that” there were many firearms hidden in the car and that he feared the other three men would use them against him. “
Deputies searched a BMW and found pistols in the backrest of the back seat and a glove compartment and a steak knife in Radcliffe’s hooded pocket, according to an arrest report. When questioned by lawmakers, Radcliffe said the men knew each other because they were part of a group called Israelis, and said they had gone to Florida to meet women.
Bragden told police he “never owned a firearm at the time of the incident,” the report said. Police noted that the suspect “was very helpful during the investigation and apologized to the victim and allowed [sheriff’s] office to download data to its cellular device of its own free will. “
The records do not say when Bragden, Radcliffe and Sellers should return to court. Sellers’ bond was set at $ 2.55 million, Radcliffe’s at $ 2.2 million and Bragdon’s at $ 700,000, a deputy sheriff at the county jail told The Washington Post.
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