Forest Service workers taken hostage, held at gunpoint in NorCal, feds say

Two U.S. Forest Service employees working in a remote area of the Shasta-Trinity National Forest were kidnapped, zip-tied and held inside a trailer for more than 17 hours before being rescued Friday morning, authorities said. The bizarre hostage crisis unfolded like a scene from a movie. Law enforcement teams from across Northern California, and even as far away as Virginia, converged Thursday on the trailer at the end of a small one-lane road, where a father and son held the workers at gunpoint, according to FBI Sacramento acting Special Agent in Charge Brian Tosh. The father, identified as 49-year-old Joseph Charles Hendrickson, told authorities he was armed with an automatic rifle and grenades and wanted to talk to the FBI, according to Siskiyou County Sheriff Jeremiah LaRue.