Intervention gone wrong leads to abduction, chase, and arrests

SEATTLE -- In Seattle, a family intervention goes wrong, and leads to an abduction, police pursuit, and four people are under arrest.

It started in an apartment on Queen Anne Avenue.

“The cop asked me if a guy just ran, and I said I think so,” said Sally Richardson, who lives in the building.

She calls the scene bizarre, with a lot of police surrounding her apartment building Sunday afternoon.

Officers say they responded to a 911 call there involving several people including a woman, her husband, and her boyfriend.

Officers asked the boyfriend to leave, but while they sorted things out in the apartment, they say the husband followed the boyfriend outside, and abducted him, bounding him up in his Lexus and taking off.

During what police call his escape attempt, the husband apparently collided with another car at an intersection in the Fremont area, and kept going.

Police were able to call him on his cell phone and convince him to pull over and surrender.

The man was arrested at the scene and taken away, and the victim, who looked beaten up, was put on a stretcher, and transported to Harborview for non-life threatening injuries.

Along with the husband, police arrested three other males at the apartment complex. All four will be booked into jail on investigation of kidnapping.