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Cabbie’s Tip Helps Nab Kidnap/Rapists

Springfield police patchA cabbie alerted police to what he suspected was the kidnapping of a drugged woman. Now two men are in custody in southwest Missouri.

A judge set bond at one million dollars each for Rayan Alqabbaa, 21, and Ahmed Alanazi, 27. Police followed the cabbie’s tip to an apartment early Saturday.

Police found two men and a partially clothed woman who was barely conscious.

The woman later told police had gone into a Springfield bar while her fiance parked their car and was given free drinks, then surrounded by unfamiliar men.

Cab driver Brian Newman said he drove the woman and the suspects to an apartment building, then flagged down a police officer.

The suspects are charged with forcible sodomy and kidnapping.

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