A father and son face federal charges after allegedly kidnapping two U.S. Forest Service employees near Mt. Shasta and holding them hostage for nearly 15 hours before surrendering to law enforcement.
Joseph Charles Henrichsen, 49, and his adult son, Phoenix Henrichsen, are charged with the kidnapping of a federal employee, according to U.S. Attorney General Eric Grant of the Eastern District of California.
The ordeal began Thursday morning in a remote area of the Shasta-Trinity National Forest. U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz said the two workers were performing routine job duties when they encountered the suspects.
Siskiyou County Sheriff Jeremiah LaRue said a Forest Service officer called around 10:55 a.m. Thursday to report that the two workers had been zip-tied and were being held inside a trailer near Gumboot Lake. According to LaRue, the elder Henrichsen demanded to speak with the FBI.
Deputies arrived at the rural, remote location around noon and located the trailer with the suspects and the victims. Authorities said the trailer did not belong to the Forest Service, though it remains unclear if it belonged to the Henrichsens.
FBI agents and deputies from neighboring Shasta County arrived to assist. The FBI also deployed its elite Hostage Rescue Team from Quantico, Virginia, to help resolve the incident safely.
Following hours of negotiations, the first hostage was released around 1:50 a.m. Friday. The second worker was freed 15 minutes later, according to FBI Special Agent Brian Tosh.
Both suspects surrendered to authorities at around 2:30 a.m.
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I’m guessing father and son tried to take Forest from the government and government said no then father and son got mad
Was the fater and son illegal immigrants from Mexico or China????
When the schmuck gets done, patting himself on the freaking back, maybe he should do like all the other commenters are saying tell us what these people wanted. The only reason this went so smooth is because they were really never endangered to begin with. They wanted to talk to the FBI somebody who is serious about killing these people would’ve already done it and the only probably only reason that this guy‘s not telling you what these people wanted is because if everybody else knew they probably had the same beef.
Due to “Charles” & “Michael” O’Ba needed a National Production to mindset !!!
so what were biological agents doing that caused them to be put under citizen arrest?
Another commenter nailed it.
This all has to do with the BigFoot cover up. Souces say a Family of BigFoot (BigFeet ?) were discovered. Several Mulitary Trucks were seen coming and going, multiple low flying aircraft and drones were seen in the area. Also, reports of cellular disruptions and road closures in the area.
YouTube sucks now they run ads mid news briefing like this! I pledge to never use or purchase any company service or product running any ads on this platform no matter what it is for.
TELL US WHAT REALLY HAPPENED! STOP HIDING $HITT WITH YOUR LEAVING OUT DETAILS…..
this report is like iran just reporting with no info just a message to say how great someone is and in this case its cash patel blowing smoke , iran is been bombed and all relevent clips supplied only show american strikes but any attacks by iran on u.s bases or forces not one american media outlet is covering it , trumps america only allows views through one lying propaganda lense … america is in the dark on the true picture of the conflict in the middle east because of this north korean russian style media suppression and restructure by the orange turd
Why were they taken Hostage?
What the hell is wrong with people????? 😮😮😮😮😮😮
✏️ “A father and son face federal charges after allegedly kidnapping two U.S. Forest Service employees near Mt. Shasta and holding them hostage for nearly 15 hours before surrendering to law enforcement.
Joseph Charles Henrichsen, 49, and his adult son, Phoenix Henrichsen,
are charged with the kidnapping of a federal employee, according to U.S. Attorney General Eric Grant of the Eastern District of California.
The ordeal began Thursday morning in a remote area of the Shasta-Trinity National Forest. U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz said the two workers were performing routine job duties when they encountered the suspects.
Siskiyou County Sheriff Jeremiah LaRue said a Forest Service officer called around 10:55 a.m. Thursday to report that the two workers had been zip-tied and were being held inside a trailer near Gumboot Lake. According to LaRue, the elder Henrichsen demanded to speak with the FBI.
Deputies arrived at the rural, remote location around noon and located the trailer with the suspects and the victims. Authorities said the trailer did not belong to the Forest Service, though it remains unclear if it belonged to the Henrichsens.
FBI agents and deputies from neighboring Shasta County arrived to assist. The FBI also deployed its elite Hostage Rescue Team from Quantico, Virginia, to help resolve the incident safely.
Following hours of negotiations, the first hostage was released around 1:50 a.m. Friday. The second worker was freed 15 minutes later, according to FBI Special Agent Brian Tosh.
Both suspects surrendered to authorities at around 2:30 a.m.”
For what purpose did they do that??
Growing something or worse!
Stressing the word “survivors” made me wonder if someone didn’t survive. I had to ask AI.
“A beautiful vacation town at the top of California to tell you a cautionary tale, a story warning…” is excellent writing. A great script. Keep up the good work.