Police: Husband kidnapped wife's boyfriend during intervention gone wrong

SEATTLE -- Four people were arrested Sunday following a bizarre kidnapping and hit-and-run crash.

According to the Seattle Police Department, officers received calls of a fight around 11 a.m. in the 300 block of Queen Anne North. The fight allegedly started at an "intervention" gone wrong, police said.

When officers arrived, they instructed a woman's boyfriend to leave the failed intervention because he was a source of conflict among others -- mainly the woman's husband. The woman's boyfriend left, and police continued trying to disperse the intervention.

But as police worked to settle disputes, the woman's husband allegedly followed the boyfriend, beat him up and bound him with ropes. The woman's husband then put the boyfriend into a Lexus, police said, and drove off.

Officers learned the woman's husband had kidnapped the woman's boyfriend after hearing of a hit-and-run crash near 40th Street and Stone Way North. Police called the woman's husband and persuaded him to surrender a short time later.

Once he pulled over, officers freed the abducted boyfriend. He was sent to Harborview Medical Center where he received treatment for minor injuries sustained during the abduction.

Police arrested the woman's husband on suspicion of kidnapping. Three other men at the party were also booked into the King County Jail as accomplices.

Queen Anne neighbors said the entire scene -- failed intervention and subsequent abduction -- was quite a sight.

Police did not immediately provide more specific details about the intervention's purpose or who was its intended target.