This story comes from Doug Casey, the goldbug curmudgeon who dishes organized charity, that you may recall.
He unfortunately knows the victim of this crime.
What is interesting here is that the police gave up the search, but the community organized a search party and went house to house.
Seeing that the only way out was a cable car maybe that seemed reasonable..
Not cool for the cops, but what about your neighbors possying to save someone kidnapped???