Four KC Residents Charged with Kidnapping Two Victims at Gunpoint, Missouri 2017

Kansas City, Mo. – Four Kansas City, Mo., residents were charged in federal court today with kidnapping a man and woman at gunpoint.

Jeremy M. Dobson, 30, his brother, Joshua A. Dobson, 25, Courtney J. Devero, 25, and Justin D. Watson, 21, all of Kansas City, were charged in a two-count complaint filed in the U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Mo.

A man and a woman were tied to a pole in the basement of a Kansas City, Mo., residence and held at gunpoint. They were allegedly beaten by the kidnappers, who took the male victim with them as they drove across Kansas, eventually leaving him tied up in a remote field as they drove to Colorado. The female victim was released at a local hospital.

On Friday, March 10, 2017, the two victims were at a residence in the 3200 block of E. 27th Street with Jeremy and Joshua Dobson and Devero, Joshua Dobson’s girlfriend, who was house sitting at the residence, as well as an uncharged juvenile female identified as “H.J.” Jeremy allegedly became upset with the female victim, his ex-girlfriend, and punched her in the face.

When the male victim intervened and pushed Jeremy Dobson away, the affidavit says, Jeremy Dobson produced a handgun and pointed it at the two victims. Jeremy Dobson fired the handgun at the female victim’s head, the affidavit says, but missed her. Jeremy Dobson allegedly forced the two victims to give him their cell phones and personal items.

Jeremy and Joshua Dobson, Devero and H.J. allegedly forced the two victims into the basement and tied them to a support pole with zip ties, rope and electrical wire.

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