SEATTLE, Wash. – Seattle Police officers arrested three people after a Spokane man said they kidnapped and robbed him after offering to drive him from Spokane to Redmond.

The 39-year-old from Spokane told police that he had given $65 to two men and a woman who had offered him a ride from Spokane to Redmond. The money was meant for gas.

However, the driver and passengers drove straight to Seattle instead, according to Seattle police’s report on the incident.

Once in Seattle, the driver turned around and hit the Spokane man in the face with a handgun while the other passengers punched him and trapped him in the car.

The woman told the Spokane man to give them all of his money or he would be shot. While they were in the car, one of the passengers took $180 in cash from the man and a bag h

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