HARTFORD, Conn. — Six men from Florida have been federally charged in connection to a carjacking and kidnapping that happened in Danbury last month.
Angel Borrero, 23, Josue Alberto Romero, 26, Reynaldo Diaz, 20, Anthony Pena, 23, Michael Rivas, 18, and Ricardo Estrada, 21, were arrested on Aug. 25 and now face federal conspiracy charges.
Earlier that day, Danbury police received multiple 911 calls from people seeing several men assaulting another man and forcing him into a van.
Officers found the van on Clapboard Ridge Road near the East Gate Road intersection and tried to stop it. The van ended up speeding up and crashing on Cowperthwaite Street.
Officers found a man and a woman in the back of the van, bound with duct tape, officials said. The victims were taken to the hospital for evaluation.
The victims told investigators their Lamborghini was rear-ended by a Honda and then the van cut in front of their vehicle. The victims were forced out of their vehicle and dragged into the van. The victims said the man was punched in the face and was hit with a baseball bat, and both were repeatedly told they would be killed, officials said.
Three officers had non-life-threatening injuries as they searched and apprehended four of the suspects, Danbury police said when the six were arrested in August; Two suspects were later found and arrested at a short-term rental home in Roxbury.
Borrero is accused of planning the trip and booking the flights to Connecticut to commit this crime, officials said.
State charges include first-degree assault, first-degree kidnapping and reckless endangerment.
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