ESPN - The kidnapping ordeal of Washington Nationals catcher Wilson Ramos
ended after two days when Venezuelan police commandos swooped in to
rescue him in a flurry of gunfire and arrested five alleged abductors.
Ramos said he was happy and thankful to be alive, and that the final
moments had been hair-raising as police and the kidnappers exchanged
heavy fire in the remote mountainous area where he was being held.
Five men were arrested in the kidnapping, including a Colombian
"linked to paramilitary groups and to kidnapping groups," El Aissami
said.
"I don't know who those people were. I know they're
Colombians by their accent," Ramos said. "Three guys grabbed me there in
front of my house, they took me to another SUV and from there they took
me into the mountains," in central Carabobo state.
He said his
abductors spoke little to him. "They simply told me to cooperate, that
they were going to ask for a ton of cash for me."
"They put me in a
room with a bed. I was lying there," he said. "It was hard for me to
think about, if I was going to get out alive first of all ... about how
my family, my mother were."
Is it bad that the first thing I thought of was how good of a movie this would make. I mean shit there are already plenty of kidnapping movies out that are not even based on a true story and this one involves a professional baseball player. Don't be surprised if you see one out in a year or two. Oh yea, and congrats to everyone involved in the rescue.
