New details emerged Tuesday about the sick kidnapping scheme that left a New York City man burned, gagged & on the brink of death — as the alleged honeypot charged with luring him was indicted.
Police found the 24-year-old victim — who was allegedly kidnapped Feb. 7 — wrapped in a furniture-moving blanket, with tape covering his nose & mouth, inside a van parked in Queens.
One of his knife-toting tormentors was also in the vehicle.
At the time, 2 of his kidnappers had taken his car to a ransom drop with the victim’s brother in The Bronx.
The victim told cops that the men were armed with a handgun & also has his cell phone.
The vicious fiends had demanded $100,000 from the victim’s horrified brother — who was forced to watch as his sibling was cut with a knife on a grisly FaceTime call.
Prosecutors have said the young man was “barely breathing” when he was found, following a twisted 24-hour torture session where he was stabbed & beaten.
The twisted saga began after the victim connected with a pretty brunette over Instagram — never suspecting that he was allegedly being targeted because she & her accomplices thought he was a wealthy prey.
Valerie Rosario, 22, who allegedly lured him to a Bronx apartment Feb. 7, was indicted in the sickening case and is set to be arraigned in Manhattan Supreme Court next month.
Prosecutors initially charged her last week with attempted murder and kidnapping.
She was arrested March 10 after cops tracked her to the Bronx home of the aunt of 1 of her alleged co-conspirators, Michael Candelario, who has also been charged.
Prosecutors say Rosario allegedly coaxed the victim, a “complete stranger,” to an address in the Bronx after they connected on Instagram.
He went to meet the Lower East Side con woman, believing they were linking up for a romantic encounter, according to sources.
But when he arrived, 3 men barged in & pistol-whipped him. Rosario, & the accomplices then allegedly stripped the victim, “placed him in a bathtub, poured flammable substances on him & burned him with a flame” all over his body.
They also tormented him with a knife, striking him “about the legs, back and body.”
Several hours of torture later, the group of sadists moved the victim to an address Queens in his own car.
Police tracked him down to the back of van parked there & arrested another of the alleged accomplices, Javier Vargas.
Vargas, 24, was arraigned on Feb. 9 & also remanded into custody. His next court date is set for March 22.
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Source: TMZ
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