KTLA says that five people have been charged with torture, robbery and false imprisonment after luring two loan modification agents to a location and then holding them for hours, beating and robbing them before one escaped.

Prosecutors say Daniel Weston and Mary Ann Parmelee hired two loan modification agents in hopes of keeping their home but believed the men took their money and did nothing.

Each of the alleged torturers are being held on about $1 million bail each.

5 Charged With Torturing Home Loan Agents [KTLA via Fark]
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