2 Jewelers Pay $1 Million in Ransom to Kidnapers
United Press International
NEW YORK —
Two jewelers held captive for 15 hours by kidnapers in the heart of Manhattan’s diamond district paid their own ransom by turning over $1- million worth of gold and gems from their company safes, police said Thursday. Police sought four men who held brothers Naftali and Izzy Bochner before releasing them Wednesday at separate locations.
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