Bay Area residents charged with traveling to Miami, kidnapping and holding family hostage for $100,000 ransom

Left to right: Three surveillance photos and a cell phone screenshot submitted as evidence in court documents allegedly show Joseph Christopher Richard committing the armed kidnapping of four victims in South Florida and demanding $100,000 ransom. (Photo courtesy of Northern California court records)

Federal prosecutors in Miami have secured an indictment against six people, including two Bay Area residents, on charges of kidnapping two children and two adults and attempting to collect $100,000 ransom for them, court records show.

The ordeal ended with all four kidnapping victims being found unharmed, but authorities say that during the seven-hour incident their abductors threatened to kill

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