After four people reportedly asked a man to join them at a residence for food and narcotics, they allegedly tied him up and tortured, assaulted, and waterboarded him.
On March 22, a man was invited by someone he knew to spend time eating and doing heroin with them at a home in South Bend, Indiana.
He accepted the invitation, and when he arrived, four people reportedly grabbed him and forced him into the basement. It was reported that two of them had guns. They allegedly used rope to tie him up before adding chains to help hold him in place.
The suspects reportedly spent the next five hours abusing him. Some of the ways they reportedly tortured him included burning him with a cigar, waterboarding him, beating him with objects, and choking him with a cord.
The alleged victim found an opportunity to escape and called the authorities from a nearby residence.
On March 28, three of the suspects were taken into custody and booked into the St. Joseph County Jail.
The 35-year-old man is facing charges of criminal confinement with moderate bodily injury, criminal confinement while armed with a deadly weapon, robbery resulting in bodily injury, armed robbery, intimidation, battery resulting in moderate bodily injury, pointing a firearm at another person, unlawful carrying of a handgun, and unlawful carrying of a handgun with a prior felony conviction within the last 15 years.
The 24-year-old suspect is facing charges of criminal confinement while armed with a deadly weapon, criminal confinement with moderate bodily injury, robbery resulting in bodily injury, armed robbery, battery resulting in moderate bodily injury, and strangulation.
The 26-year-old man is facing charges of criminal confinement while armed with a deadly weapon, criminal confinement with moderate bodily injury, robbery resulting in bodily injury, armed robbery, and battery resulting in moderate bodily injury.
There is currently no information about the fourth suspect, but the investigation is ongoing.
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