Posted on 02/17/2012 6:37:44 AM PST by Travis McGee
A Florida family endured three days of torture and fear as they were held hostage by a group of criminals demanding thousands of dollars in cash. Today the father testified against one of his abductors, telling how they terrorized the family and played Russian roulette with their five-year-old son. The scarring details came out as Victor Manuel Sanchez, the first of the four assailants, is on trial for numerous felony charges including attempted murder, home-invasion robbery, and kidnapping. Sanchez and his three partners were arrested after they had held the Morais family hostage in their Winter Garden, Florida home for three days in November 2009. The saga began when the group of three men and the female Bolivian ringleader- who remains at large and is thought to have fled the country- knocked on the Morais' home demanding that Rubens Morais, 48, give them money in order to 'save his family'. He complied and gave them $30,000 from the family safe. That did not satisfy them, and they forced Mr Morais' wife Marcela Borges, 27, to withdraw $23,600 from an ATM. Even after they had the money that they wanted, the captors were not finished with their mental torture. The captors played Russian roulette with the couple's 5-year-old son Ryan, repeatedly pulling the trigger while pressing the gun up against the young boys head. 'I was absolutely sure that after I paid them, they would kill me,' Mr Morais said
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Of course, since the home owners were probably evil rich people, our own media will not cover the story.
Not newsworthy in the PC USSA. We have to read about it in the UK press.
Comfort to fear: The abductors knocked on the family's Winter Garden, Florida home and demanded cash from the father in order to 'save his family'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2102329/Home-invaders-played-Russian-roulette-5-year-old-held-family-hostage-days.html#ixzz1meJ2T9jm
This will become more and more common as time goes by. NEVER open your door to strangers! Use peepholes, side windows, or security cameras to see who is out there. Beware of ruses and pretexts. Home invaders will even send a girlfriend to your door posing as a crime victim or poll taker, while they hide around the corner. DON’T OPEN THAT DOOR, and have a gun ready! And have more guns and knives hidden but in reach, in case they do get inside.
They come only to do the kidnapping and terror that Americans won’t do.
The captors played Russian roulette with the couple’s 5-year-old son Ryan, repeatedly pulling the trigger while pressing the gun up against the young boys head.
‘I was absolutely sure that after I paid them, they would kill me,’ Mr Morais said in Portuguese while testifying.
The horrifying episode did not end until Ms Borges escaped after climbing out of a second-floor window.
As she raced to a neighbour’s house, one of the captors shot her in the back, and the bullet went right through her and hit her wrist on the way out.
Even after all of that, she still managed to get to the nearby house and call for help. The captors fled when she escaped, but three of the four involved were later captured by police.
The investigation that followed established that it was not a random attack, but that the attackers likely followed the family for a period of time before the attack in order to learn more about them and their habits.
Where do I sign up to throw the switch?
We don’t need electric chairs, we need electric bleachers.
In Pensacola on Valentine’s Day a woman was robbed by a guy who showed up at the door posing as a delivery man with flowers and candy................
Charged: Victor Manuel Sanchez is one of the four alleged abductors who kept a Florida family hostage in their own home for three days in 2009.
Arrested: Miguel Diaz Santiz (left) and Oscar Hernandez Diaz (right) are the other two men that have been arrested in the case.
My comment: No doubt, the female was the one who got somebody to open the front door. This is a typical home invasion tactic.)
Americans who are stupid enough to drink the Leftist koolade will get more of this sort of thing and will have only themselves to blame.
The rest of us know what we're up against.
I need to keep a pistol by the door.
I’d be down with a return to weekly public hangings on the square. Ropes cheap and reliable. Plus....it would be fun to gamble on neck stretch.
That said: $30,000 in a home safe and another $23,000 from the ATM? What kind of business were these folks in?
Maybe I'm seeing things that aren't there. It'll be interesting to see how many freepers have $30,000 in cash lying around the house.
My wife makes it a point not to open the door until I’m armed and in position.
I don’t think one can withdraw 23 grand from a ATM machine. My bank allows $300.00 a day from a ATM. Does an ATM even hold 23 grand?
and the perps probably knew about the cash.
what buisness, indeed!
What kind of business were these folks in?
&&&
I wondered, as well.
Obviously not "sanitation and waste reclamation." ;o)
i would imagine there are plenty of people that have that amount of money locked up in a home safe. doesn’t sound unreasonable to me. having the money in their safe wasn’t the problem, not being prepared to defend it was.
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