Indictment: Kidnapping crew had wrong address, took wrong person

Atlanta Journal-Constitution ^ | April 22, 2014 | Marcus K. Garner

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An Atlanta kidnapping crew scheming to nab a North Carolina prosecutor went to the wrong address and, instead, grabbed the attorney’s father, authorities said. Prosecutors said a hired crew was contracted to snatch his daughter, Wake County, N.C., Assistant District Attorney Colleen Janssen, at the behest of a man she had put in prison for life.

Twice, apparent bungling led the cohorts to the wrong place, according to the indictment obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. In March, an Internet search led the alleged conspirators to an address for the North Carolina prosecutor … in Louisiana. So an armed team rented a car and drove to Louisiana on what proved to be a fruitless mission. “Despite traveling from Georgia to Louisiana and taking various other steps to carry out the kidnapping plot, the participants aborted the plot prior to completing the abduction,” the indictment read.

And on April 5, prosecutors said four people drove a rented car from Atlanta to Wake Forest with information they believed pointed them to the home of Colleen Janssen.

They found, instead, her father, and according to prosecutors, left a receipt at Frank Janssen’s home from a meal stop they made earlier that day en route to their target. Investigators would eventually find the receipt and track it to a McDonald’s restaurant in Lexington, S.C., where surveillance video would help identify two of the suspects, authorities said.

Frank Janssen was pistol-whipped and shocked with an electronic stun gun multiple times, both at his home as he was taken and on the trip back to Atlanta, prosecutors said. Five days later, an FBI kidnap rescue unit located and freed him safely from a southeast Atlanta apartment just as the crew made plans to kill him, authorities said.

[Boogieman]

They have made Camel Menthols for years :P

[Kenny Bunk]

I must warn all FReepers.

Kelvin and I use the same hair stylist. It has turned me into a babe magnet, the darling of PETA, and ACLU Fundraisers!

[AppyPappy]

His name will be Jakym Tibbs
What’s his middle name?
His what?
Middle....name
Oh..ummm...Kah-mel. You know. Like Superman.
How do you spell that?
Ummmm....like it sounds.
Got it. Camel.
Do you want him circumcised?
Nah, we have a car.

[Rodamala]

One of the biggest kicks I get on here is the commentary on Amish naming conventions... what was the one yesterday or the day before... Q’uatrel? I forget... I laughed.