4/21 • California • Los Angeles
Northern California tourists kidnapped at gunpoint inside Airbnb, robbed of items worth $70,000, police say
By: Joshua Bote, SFGATE | Published on April 21, 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.
