Overview
- Damarcus Bonner, 30, and Tyron Harris, 27, appeared before a New Hampshire federal judge Tuesday after prosecutors filed an interstate kidnapping conspiracy charge.
- Prosecutors say the pair took a woman from Claremont, New Hampshire, to a Springfield, Vermont, home and held her for more than a day while beating, burning, and demanding money.
- Springfield police rescued the victim in the early hours of January 25 and reported finding a handgun, drugs packaged for sale, duct tape, and items used for torture in the home.
- The FBI leads the investigation with Vermont State Police and local departments, and prosecutors say a conviction could carry a sentence of up to life in prison.
- Both men had been held on Vermont state charges since January, and four other suspects remain in state court on related counts with no public federal charges announced for them.