R.I. man held hostage in Georgia, prosecutors say

A man was lured from Rhode Island to buy a car but ended up "badly beaten" and chained in an Atlanta basement for nearly a week, according to prosecutors in Georgia. His accused captors called his wife in Rhode Island to try to collect about a $300,000 drug debt that he "supposedly owed," according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Georgia. Three Mexican men have been charged: Victor Abiles Gomez, 30, Omar Mendoza-Villegas, 19, and Gerardo Solorio Reyes, 23, the latter also known as "Gera." The three were in the United States illegally, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office in Georgia. The statement does not name the man the U.S. Attorney says was lured from Rhode Island but says he was originally from the Dominican Republic. On Friday, a Drug Enforcement Administration task... [read full story]