Again we have to go across the pond to fill in the blanks that the politically correct American media fails to report
Via The Daily Mail
An imprisoned gangster used a smuggled cell phone to mastermind the terrifying kidnap of the father of a prosecutor who helped send him away for life, federal authorities said.
Frank Arthur Janssen, a North Carolina military contractor whose daughter prosecutes violent crimes, was rescued in a raid on an Atlanta apartment by the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team on Wednesday night.
Authorities arrested five people – aged between 19 and 21 – who allegedly have connections to the Bloods gang. They were acting on behalf of Kelvin Melton, who is serving a life sentence for ordering the shooting of a man in 2011, said John Strong, the FBI’s agent in charge for North Carolina.
During the abduction, the kidnappers took a picture of Janssen tied up in a chair and sent it to his wife, threatening to torture and dismember him if she went to police, the FBI said in court documents.
They also allegedly exchanged at least 123 calls and text messages with Melton in the past week as they discussed how to kill and bury 63-year-old Janssen without a trace.
The suspects were found nearly five days after the kidnapping after authorities tracked their mobile phones and listened to their calls.
Authorities are now investigating how Melton, 49, got a mobile phone in his cell at Polk Correctional Institution in Butner. Smuggled phones usually come from relatives or other visitors, AP reported.
Testimony from his 2012 trial shows Melton is a high-ranking member of the Bloods street gang from New York City who ordered a 21-year-old subordinate to travel to Raleigh and kill his ex-girlfriend’s new boyfriend.
Court records show Melton has a long record of felony convictions in New York, the first being a 1979 robbery committed when he was 14.
The admitted triggerman, Jamil Herring Gressett, testified that he followed Melton’s orders for fear he or his loved ones would be killed if he didn’t. The victim survived a gunshot wound.
The prosecutor in the case was Wake County Assistant District Attorney Colleen Janssen – kidnapping victim Frank Janssen’s daughter.
In a handwritten 2012 letter in the court file, Melton protested that the prosecutor had not followed proper legal procedure, citing a specific state statute.
Prosecutor must file accuser affidavit with clerk of court ‘prior’ to seeking an indictment, this affidavit must be on file, mandatory!’ Melton wrote. ‘The accused indictment is not legal and is rendered in-valid.’
But it didn’t work and Melton was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill and being a habitual felon, resulting in a life sentence.
The case came back to haunt the Jenssen family when a woman knocked on Frank Janssen’s door on Saturday at his Wake Forest home. Several people assaulted him and someone used a stun gun.
He was then driven 400 miles away to Atlanta and his wife, Christie, returned home from a shopping trip to find him gone from the home and drops of what appeared to be blood on the ground.