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Teens Accused in Elderly Kidnapping, Beating Plead Not Guilty
KTLA News
December 13, 2008
EL CAJON, Calif. -- Three teenagers accused of kidnapping a 75-year-old woman pleaded not guilty to torture and other charges Friday in court.
Luis Osborne, 18, Jeffrey Edward Nelson, 19, and Antoinette Baker, 18, are being held on $2-million bail.
The charges against them range from robbery, kidnapping, forced imprisonment of an elder, physical abuse of an elder and torture.
If convicted of the torture charges, all three could face life sentences.
The 3 were arrested late Wednesday when a Sheriff's deputy spotted them and pulled over their car for running a red light.
The victim, Natalie Sandy Vinge was discovered in the back of the station wagon. She was bound, gagged and had been savagely beaten.
She told investigators one of the suspects was a salesman from a carpet company who sold her a $2,000 vacuum.
She said he came back later, choked her until she passed out, tied her hands and feet and gagged her mouth with duct tape.
When she woke up she was in the back of her own car, officials said.
Vinje chewed through the duct tape and yelled for help when the car was parked at a gas station, but, no one heard her.
Investigators said a man and woman then beat and punched her in the face several times.
A shovel was also found in the car, indicating that Vinje "may have been on the way to her death," according to San Diego sheriff's Lt. Dennis Brugos.
Teens Accused in Elderly Kidnapping, Beating Plead Not Guilty
KTLA News
December 13, 2008
EL CAJON, Calif. -- Three teenagers accused of kidnapping a 75-year-old woman pleaded not guilty to torture and other charges Friday in court.
Luis Osborne, 18, Jeffrey Edward Nelson, 19, and Antoinette Baker, 18, are being held on $2-million bail.
The charges against them range from robbery, kidnapping, forced imprisonment of an elder, physical abuse of an elder and torture.
If convicted of the torture charges, all three could face life sentences.
The 3 were arrested late Wednesday when a Sheriff's deputy spotted them and pulled over their car for running a red light.
The victim, Natalie Sandy Vinge was discovered in the back of the station wagon. She was bound, gagged and had been savagely beaten.
She told investigators one of the suspects was a salesman from a carpet company who sold her a $2,000 vacuum.
She said he came back later, choked her until she passed out, tied her hands and feet and gagged her mouth with duct tape.
When she woke up she was in the back of her own car, officials said.
Vinje chewed through the duct tape and yelled for help when the car was parked at a gas station, but, no one heard her.
Investigators said a man and woman then beat and punched her in the face several times.
A shovel was also found in the car, indicating that Vinje "may have been on the way to her death," according to San Diego sheriff's Lt. Dennis Brugos.
