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Northern California tourists kidnapped at gunpoint inside Airbnb, robbed of items worth $70,000, police say

By: Joshua Bote | Published on April 22, 2022

A group of Northern California tourists was kidnapped and robbed of $70,000 worth of designer apparel and jewelry, Los Angeles police said.

The incident took place Wednesday morning when three armed men allegedly followed four people from a restaurant in the Beverly Grove neighborhood to their Airbnb in the affluent Coldwater Canyon area.

Los Angeles police Det. Chris Marsden told KABC that the men — one holding a rifle and the others armed with shotguns — trailed the tourists all the way to their homes and held them up at gunpoint, forcing them “to give over their jewelry.” The alleged kidnapping took place at around 1:30 p.m, an LAPD spokesperson told SFGATE.

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