Texas officers find dozens of people held captive in homes
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October 7, 2016
IRVING, Texas (AP, Oct. 6, 2016) — Dozens of people were found being held against their will in what their captives told authorities were drug and alcohol rehabilitation facilities in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, police said Thursday.
The treatment of captives, who were Hispanic and spoke little or no English, was "medieval and barbaric," Fort Worth police said in a statement. Victims were often beaten, tied to chairs and fed one package of noodles a day, the statement said. Beds were made of wooden two-by-fours, it said.
Nine men have been charged with aggravated kidnapping in the case, though...
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