Kidnapper accepted $700 for victim, prosecutors say
How much is a life worth? Cook County prosecutors said today that a man charged with kidnapping accepted $700 to set his victim free.
Charged with felony aggravated kidnapping after prosecutors said he held his victim for ransom, the tables were turned today on Terrance Warren, who was ordered held in the Cook County Jail in lieu of $1 million bail.
On Jan. 9 at 9:45 p.m., Warren, 26, of the 4400 block of West Iowa Street was riding in a sport-utility vehicle with two other people when they allegedly turned it in front of another vehicle, causing it to crash near Roosevelt and Pulaski Roads.
When the driver of the crashed vehicle exited it, prosecutors said, one of the SUV's occupants punched him in the face before he was subdued and forced into the back seat of the SUV.
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