Daily News | A family held hostage for three days in their Northeast Philly home described the harrowing experience in court
for three days in February, when a crew of armed men threatened and beat them and forced them to drain their bank accounts.
Speaking mostly in Vietnamese translated through an interpreter, Tran said what followed was a harrowing days-long episode in which he, his wife, their infant son, and two others were held captive at gunpoint in the basement of their Holmesburg home. He said the men ransacked the home, on the 4600 block of Decatur Street, to find and steal jewelry and gold bars.
They used banking apps like Zelle and CashApp to wire more funds, Tran said, and forced him to call and instruct the bank to wire $25,000 to one of their accounts. He said they also used his credit cards to order personal items from Amazon and Target, including a television and baby diapers. At, one point, they tried to force Tran, who has a gun license, to buy them three guns, he said, but the store was closed.
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