SWAT team responds to Fort Lauderdale apartment during probe into kidnapping

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – A SWAT team responded to a Fort Lauderdale apartment after a man reported he had been kidnapped during an armed carjacking, police said.

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Police officers surrounded an apartment on Thursday night near Dixie Highway and Northeast 18th Street until early Friday morning.

“The victim was transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries,” Casey Liening, a spokeswoman for the Fort Lauderdale Police Department, wrote in a statement.

Detectives asked anyone with information about this or other cases to call Broward County Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477 to remain anonymous.

This is a developing story. Local 10 News Assignment Desk Editor Kelly Davis contributed to this report.


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