MORGAN HILL (CBS SF) — A man was arrested Wednesday evening in connection with the kidnapping and assault of a handyman in unincorporated Santa Clara County more than two weeks ago, a Santa Clara County sheriff's sergeant said.

Richard Rodriguez Jr., 49, whose last known address was in Alameda, turned himself in to Alameda police on Wednesday around 5 p.m., Sgt. Jose Cardoza said.

Alameda police will take Rodriguez to the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office within the next week, Cardoza said.

Rodriguez had an outstanding arrest warrant on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and a prison sentence for his alleged involvement in a Dec. 3 incident in which a handyman was forced to do home repair work against his will, Cardoza said.

Cardoza said Rodriguez helped two Morgan Hill residents, Jason DeJesus, 36, and Chanelle Troedson, 33, force the 50-year-old handyman to work on the Morgan Hill suspect's home in the 200 block of Caldwell Way.

On December 3, around 7 p.m., San Jose police received a report of a kidnapping and assault by the victim, who had managed to escape his captors at a San Jose gas station.

Police turned the investigation over to the sheriff's office because the kidnapping occurred outside police jurisdiction, Cardoza said.

The victim told officers that he initially performed handyman services for a relative of one of the suspects about two months ago, but was not paid in full for his work, which led to a dispute over the services provided, Cardoza said.

The victim said the suspects lured him to their apartment just before 11 a.m. to do repair work, the sergeant said.

Upon arriving at the residence, the victim was attacked, held against his will and threatened with his life for several hours, Cardoza said.

The victim was still inside the Caldwell Way apartment at 5:30 p.m. when the suspects forced him into a truck.

The victim was told he needed to complete repair work he began two months ago on the suspect's relative's home in Santa Clara.

On the way to the house, the suspects stopped at the Chevron gas station at the intersection of Santa Teresa Boulevard and Cottle Road in San Jose to purchase gas.

As the suspects exited the vehicle to purchase gas and groceries, the victim fled on foot, ignoring a warning from the suspects to stay put, Cardoza said.

The victim ran to a nearby residence to report the incident, he said.

San Jose police responded to the scene, located DeJesus and Troedson near the gas station and arrested them on suspicion of false imprisonment, kidnapping, assault with a deadly weapon, criminal threats and conspiracy.

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PLEASANT HILL (CBS SF/BCN) — A woman wanted on kidnapping charges in Solano County was arrested Wednesday after an armed standoff with Pleasant Hill police, authorities said.

Frances Clausell, 31, was being held on the kidnapping warrant and the knife attack in the Martinez Detention Facility on Thursday.

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Officers responded about 5:13 pm Wednesday to reports of a domestic dispute in a home in the 1800 block of Oak Park Boulevard. Upon arrival, the officers discovered a woman bleeding from a knife wound to the hand and Clausell armed with the knife and barricaded in the home with a 2-year-old child.

A member of the police department’s Crisis Intervention Team arrived at the scene and established a line of communication with Clausell, who refused to exit the home and to release the child.

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At the same time, officers discovered Clausell was wanted on kidnapping charges involving the same child. Police have not released information on the relationship between the child and woman or a motive.

In the Solano County incident, police said, Clausell had threatened to end his own life and the child’s.

As SWAT teams were assembling in response, the police officer in communication with Clausell talked her into surrendering and she was taken into custody without incident.

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The child was unharmed and placed in the care of child services. The stabbing victim was treated at a local hospital for her wounds and expected to recover.

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – A Northern California couple charged with forced labor for forcing three Guatemalan immigrants to work long hours in their businesses for minimal wages were charged with kidnapping a 13-year-old Las Vegas girl in 1997 .

A federal grand jury on Thursday filed a substitute indictment against Nery Martinez Vasquez and his wife Maura Martinez, both 52 and both from Shasta Lake, about 170 miles north of Sacramento, accusing them of conspiracy to commit kidnappings and kidnappings the Federal Prosecutor’s Office with.

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In January 1997, the couple allegedly conspired to kidnap a 13-year-old girl from their Las Vegas home. They promised the girl’s parents to bring her back in a week. They then drove her to her home in Redding, California, and held her against her and her parents’ wishes for nearly two years. Martinez Vasquez is also said to have sexually molested and raped the girl several times, the prosecutor said.

Mark Reichel, who represents the couple, did not immediately return a message from The Associated Press asking for comment.

In 2019, the couple pleaded not guilty to forcing a Guatemalan woman and her two underage daughters to work long hours in their restaurant and caretaker service for little or no wages.

According to prosecutors, the couple, who are themselves naturalized citizens of Guatemala, brought the woman and their daughters to the United States in 2016 with temporary visitor visas. They are charged with hosting them after their visa expires and laying a false debt of $ 12,000 to prevent them from returning to Guatemala.

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They are also said to have separated the mother from her daughters, threatened them with arrest and abused them physically, mentally and verbally, including beating the two girls with a stick.

The couple ran a restaurant called Latino’s and Redding Carpet Cleaning & Janitorial Services, according to the indictment.

The woman and her daughters had to live in “a dilapidated, unheated caravan without air conditioning and running water”. They humiliated her in front of her daughters and forced her to eat leftover food, the authorities said.

The abuse ended in February 2018, according to the indictment, but authorities did not say what happened to the woman and her daughters. The government also confiscated the property of the two defendants.

The couple faces 20 years to life imprisonment if convicted, officials said.

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