The D.A. may mean "illegally detaining" by kidnaping. He wants to get these guys on something - anything - so that he doesn't look like the complete fool we know he is.
I think I may have heard a vagrant on the side walk say that one of the defendants' cars was double-parked. Or I might have if I had been in Durham in the past three years, which I haven't.
Think of it as "fake but accurate."