3 arrested after Fla. family terrorized

WINTER GARDEN, Fla., Nov. 19 (UPI) -- Three men were arrested and a woman was sought for allegedly abducting and terrorizing a Florida couple and their 5-year-old son for two days, police said.

The suspects allegedly forced Marcela Borges, 27, of Winter Garden, Fla., near Orlando, Fla., to withdraw nearly $24,000 from the bank and shot her as she tried to escape, police said.

"It appears to us that it is not a random act," Lt. Keith Ralston told the Orlando Sentinel, but decline to explain further.

Borges and Rubens Morais, 48, president of RLM Trucks Carrier Inc., answered the door of their 3,700-square-foot home Sunday morning, a police report said.

Four intruders armed with guns pushed their way in, blindfolded the family and drove them in their own sport utility vehicle to a house in Apopka, 13 miles north, where they were held captive overnight, the report said.

The next day, they were taken back home, still blindfolded and bound with clothing and duct tape, the report said.

Borges was forced to go to a bank and withdraw $23,600, the report said.

She managed to pull down her blindfold and free herself Tuesday and leaped from a second-story window.

As she ran toward a neighbor's house, one of the intruders allegedly shot her in the left side of the back, with the bullet passing through her body and hitting her left wrist, shattering it, the police report said.

Morais was hit on the head with a blunt object, but was not seriously hurt. Their son was not hurt.

Police later arrested Oscar Diaz Hernandez, 19, of Orlando and cousins Miguel Diaz Santiz, 25, and Victor Manuel Sanchez, 20, both of Apopka, on charges of attempted homicide, kidnapping and home-invasion robbery.

Police did not release the name of the female suspect.