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Grandparents are kidnapped, ransomed for cocaine or $3.5M

by Associated Press
| October 6, 2020 12:06 PM

A group of drug dealers intent on recovering 50 kilograms of cocaine kidnapped an associate's grandparents from their home in northern New York, ferried them across the Canadian border through a tribal reservation, and held them hostage for two nights until police staged a rescue, U.S. authorities said.

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