Father, son charged in US Forest Service workers’ kidnapping

A father and son were arrested on Monday in connection with the kidnapping of two U.S. Forest Service employees in Northern California’s Shasta-Trinity National Forest, resulting in a 15-hour standoff.

Joseph Charles Henrichsen, 49, and Phoenix Henrichsen, 23, were charged with kidnapping federal employees, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of California said in a statement. Neither man entered a plea during a federal court appearance in Sacramento on Monday.

The Forest Service employees were conducting field work near Gumboot Lake Campground in a remote area of Siskiyou County before they were kidnapped, authorities said. The father and son allegedly abducted the workers at gunpoint, armed with an AR-15-style assault rifle, before they were bound and taken to a trailer and held there for 15 hours, according to the criminal complaint.

Joseph Henrichsen allegedly used a phone belonging to one of the........

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