The Boston Globe, June 2nd, 1993
The strangers on the phone wanted $2,500 in an unmarked envelope, and their frightened victim rushed to the police to report her disturbing predicament: Her 1988 Acura was being held for ransom. So began a bizarre, 18-hour "carnapping" case that ended shortly after noon yesterday in Cambridge's bustling Central Square, when state and local police arrested two Roxbury men who allegedly were preparing to return the stolen Acura to an undercover officer posing as the owner's brother, authorities said. In what officials declared the only case of its kind reported in the area, Bradley C. Fuller, 31...
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