Father and Son Freed 2 Forest Service Workers After 15-Hour Gunpoint Ordeal
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Updated · The New York Times · Jul 18
Father and Son Freed 2 Forest Service Workers After 15-Hour Gunpoint Ordeal
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Jul 18
Summary
Two U.S. Forest Service employees were freed early Friday after being bound and held at gunpoint for about 15 hours in California's Shasta-Trinity National Forest; both suspects are now in custody.
Joseph Charles Henrichsen, 49, and Phoenix Henrichsen, 23, were arrested after authorities said they targeted the workers specifically because they were federal employees.
More than two dozen Shasta County sheriff's officers joined the response, while the FBI said the two workers were not physically injured but were badly shaken and need time to recover.
The kidnapping remains under investigation, with local authorities saying Henrichsen had voiced intense anti-federal grievances for years, pointing to broader risks facing government field staff.