Kids Tied Up Brother, Sister In Barn, Threatened To Burn Them: Police

Two Lothian brothers, 14 and 12, kidnapped an 8-year-old girl and her 9-year-old brother from a playground at knife point, led them to a barn, tied them up, threatened to burn them and then fled the scene, according to the Anne Arundel County Police Department.

The kids were taken Sunday from Boones Mobile Park when the brothers wielded a knife, police said. The boys carried and forced the kids into a nearby barn, where the girl’s hands and feet were tied up with rope, police said.

“The suspects were threatening to burn the victims and were waiving a knife at both of them,” police said.

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The brothers fled the barn, police said, when they learned that people were looking for the kids. An adult and neighborhood kids eventually found them in the barn and undid the ropes.

The brothers were identified and arrested on a number of charges including kidnapping, arson and reckless endangerment.

They were placed in a juvenile detention facility.

A 911 caller in the 5600 block of Southern Maryland Blvd. in Lothian initially called in a controlled substance violation called back and said he had two children with him who had been kidnapped by teenagers.