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Alleged Kidnappers Forced Man to Take Them to Strip Club
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Few things cap off a good ol' crime caper like seeing some ladies take it off and work the pole. That seems, perhaps, to be the motivation for two alleged kidnappers who are accused of robbing a man and forcing him to drive them to a strip club.The accused kidnappers, Miguel Ortiz and Sergio Maldonado, allegedly approached their victim on foot while he stood near his home at 107th Street and Inglewood Avenue in Lennox, according to City News Service.
The victim reports the duo demanded he give them a ride.
Suspecting the men were gang members, the victim agreed, then ended up driving Ortiz and Maldonado to several locations, the last of which being the Bare Elegance strip club in Hawthorne. There the suspects allegedly robbed the man, sent him on his way, then settled into the club for some entertainment.
Police located the two men--where else?!--inside the strip club watching the show, and subsequently put them under arrest.
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