Two people were arrested for breaking into a California home and kidnapping four people — including a 14-year-old girl and an infant — at gunpoint and taking them to a nearby motel, police said.
Michael Alexander Rodriguez, 26, and 30-year-old Bich Dao Vo, otherwise known as Michelle Rodriguez, barged into the Pine Street home in Westminster, California, sometime before 2:35 a.m. last Thursday while at least two adults and the two kids were inside, police officials said.
According to the Westminster Police Department, the pair pistol-whipped the adult victims after they couldn’t find any money in the home. They then allegedly forced all four people, including the 6-month-old baby, into a U-Haul cargo van at gunpoint and took them to a motel in Costa Mesa.
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Michael Alexander Rodriguez, 26, a suspect in the Oct. 27, 2022, home invasion and kidnapping in Westminster, California.
(Westminster Police Department)
Westminster is located roughly eight miles north of Huntington Beach, California.
Police did not identify the name of the motel and said Michelle Rodriguez was related to one of the adult victims.
Bich Dao Vo, otherwise known as Michelle Rodriguez, a suspect in the Oct. 27, 2022, home invasion and kidnapping in Westminster, California.
(Westminster Police Department)
“The suspects threatened to kill the victims if they did not get money,” police said.
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One of the loaded guns used in the Oct. 27, 2022, home invasion and kidnapping in Westminster, California.
(Westminster Police Department)
But the two adult victims were able to slip away from their kidnappers and left the children inside the motel room as they sought help, police said. The victims returned to the Pine Street home and called police, who went to the home and discovered both adults bleeding and with head injuries.
Officers then went to the motel room and found the children safe and uninjured inside.
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One of the loaded guns used in the Oct. 27, 2022, home invasion and kidnapping in Westminster, California.
(Westminster Police Department)
Officers later caught up to the suspects inside the U-Haul van a half-mile from the home, police said. They stopped the vehicle, arrested the suspects and found two loaded guns — a .40-caliber firearm and an AK-47-style assault rifle — inside the van.
A spokesperson for the police department did not immediately respond to questions regarding a possible motive, the suspects’ connections to the victims and their criminal histories.
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The suspects were each charged with kidnapping, assault with a firearm, robbery, false imprisonment, child endangerment and being felons in possession of firearms.
