A couple in their 50s was kidnapped and assaulted this weekend while house hunting in Connecticut, police said.
The incident happened on Sunday afternoon in the city of Danbury, when a group of six men deliberately backed up the couple’s Lamborghini sports car before forcing them into the back of a van.
The men – who all live in Florida – beat the couple with a baseball bat, taped their hands and feet and covered the male victim’s eyes. Some members of the group then drove off in the Lamborghini while the others tried to escape with the victims in the van.
“It looks like they were hit with a bat,” Sgt Steven Castrovinci said of the kidnapped couple, as quoted by ABC News’ New York City station WABC. “The male victim was quite bruised, quite swollen and they indicated they had been hit with a bat multiple times.”
A witness called the police and followed the van until it lost control and crashed. The police were then able to arrest the four men in the van and free the kidnapped couple. The other two men were later arrested.
Police told WABC that the two victims were taken to the hospital and are recovering from their injuries, which are not life-threatening.
All six suspects are now facing charges including first-degree assault, first-degree kidnapping and reckless endangerment. The motive remains unclear and there is no clear connection between the suspect and the victims.
WABC named the arrested men as Angel Borrero, 23; Reynaldo Diaz, 22; Anthony Pena, 23; Josue Romero, 26; Ricardo Estrada, 21; and Michael Rivas, 18.
ABC News’ Jason Volack contributed to this report.