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Pair From Stockton Arrested For Marijuana-Related Kidnapping


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Santa Rosa police arrested two Stockton residents for allegedly kidnapping a man Sunday who was brokering a marijuana deal between two groups of people, a police sergeant said. 

During the marijuana deal on Slater Street in Santa Rosa, one group fled without paying for about five pounds of pot, and the other group held the 20-year-old broker at gunpoint when they realized their marijuana had been stolen, Sgt. Josh Ludtke said. 

The group drove the broker to the 300 block of Taylor View Drive and ordered him to undress and get into the vehicle's trunk, Ludtke said. 

When one of his captors became distracted, the broker fled in his underwear through an apartment complex, jumped into a car driven by strangers and asked them to drive him where there were many people, according to Ludtke. 

The broker was driven to a Target store at 1980 Santa Rosa Ave. where he ran through a parking lot asking for someone to call police, Ludtke said. Police found him a short time later. 

Police investigated the case into Monday evening and identified the kidnappers as Stockton residents. Santa Rosa and Stockton police contacted two suspects as they left a Stockton residence in a vehicle. 

Seth Willden, 38, and Misty Lovecchio, 39, both of Stockton, were arrested on suspicion of robbery, kidnapping, false imprisonment, assault with a deadly weapon, brandishing a firearm and making terrorist threats, Ludtke said. Both were booked into San Joaquin County Jail. 
 

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During the marijuana deal, one group fled without paying for about five pounds of pot.  The other group held the 20-year-old broker at gunpoint when they realized their marijuana had been stolen. 

The group drove the broker to the 300 block of Taylor View Drive and ordered him to undress and get into the vehicle's trunk. 
When one of his captors became distracted, the broker fled in his underwear through an apartment complex, jumped into a car driven by strangers and asked them to drive him where there were many people. 

The broker was driven to a Target store where he ran through a parking lot asking for someone to call police. Police found him a short time later. 

 

I've read many, many times by the legalize-marijuana crowd that once marijuana is legalized, business disputes would not need to end in violence or extrajudicially, as the disputing parties can avail themselves to the local Better Business Bureau/courts. 

I guess in this case, the party of the second part was undressing the broker and putting him in the car trunk to take him to the BBB/courts?     

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