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Two Charged With Holding Man Hostage For $300 Drug Debt
June 15, 2012
Two Escambia County men are charged with kidnapping a man and holding him hostage for ransom to settle up a $300 drug debt.
Michael Shawn Hastings, 39, and Nathan Anton Vazques, 33, were both charged with kidnapping an adult for ransom. Both were booked into the Escambia County Jail with bond set at $50,000.
The victim’s wife told Escambia County Sheriff’s deputies that she received a call at 1:30 in the morning from a man calling himself “Slick” informing her that her husband was being held captive until she delivered $300 in cash to the Bayou Grande trailer park. She was told, according to the Sheriff’s Office, to come alone and not call the police.
As the victim’s wife was talking to a deputy, another call demanding the ransom cash came in, and the deputy was able to listen as the caller detailed where to take the cash and what the persons she needed to meet look like.
More deputies were dispatched to the Bayou Grand trailer park where Hastings and Vazques were detained.
The victim had escaped his captors and was found a short distance away. He told deputies that a guy he knew as “Nate” forced him to get money for the narcotics he had used. He drove him to an ATM, but he was unable to get the cash at which time he was beaten up and taken back to the trailer park. Then “Nate” and another male began calling his wife demanding the $300, he reported to deputies.
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14 Responses to “Two Charged With Holding Man Hostage For $300 Drug Debt”
I wondered if there were two of them or if this Slick was the same one
they were looking for in Molino. This time they need to throw away
the key.
do you guys remember a guy name slick from some article a while back? he wasnt so Slick this time.
Thank ypu William for reporting what is happening when others won’t
>>Why not publish the victims name?
As a matter of policy, we don’t publish the names of victims in most circumstances.
Why not publish the victims name?
more proof that you just cant fix stupid!
Really! This is ALL illegal! ITS DRUG DEALING…. Just trying to get their money back…. What a bunch of crap!
they were just trying to get their money back.
So one gentleman buys psychoactive chemicals from other gentlemen but doesn’t pay for his purchase. The other gentlemen take extreme measures to get paid. It is possible the other gentlemen’s minds were also in an altered state unless they are usually stupid as all get out.
Still, it brought back a fond memory. My mother had been in the hospital and Daddy went to take her home. The hospital explained he had to pay her bill before he coult leave with her. Daddy explained that kidnapping was illegal and he WAS taking her home.
GOOD TIMES.
I don’t think I’d admit to having any dealings with either of these clowns. They both look as if they belong in prison. Go tell the cops if they stole money from you… unless it was for other illegal activity, if so no sympathy here.
“No honor among theives”
I have had to deal with Vazques on several occations so this is no surprise. I dont understand how he keeps on getting out.
THEY STOLE 80 DOLLARS FROM ME EARLIER THAT EVENING
Dumb & dumber?