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Mason Will Go Back To Court For Kidnapping Friessen
posted (August 10, 2016)

But police are taking the big guns to Belmopan Magistrate’s Court tomorrow.  Assistant Commissioner Chester Williams will go to Belmopan tomorrow to arraign William Danny Mason and his associates for conspiracy to kidnap and kidnapping for Lloyd Friessen.  This is a new charge – relating to the event that may have eventually lead to Pastor Lu’s beheading.  Friessen – who is a large grain producer in Spanish Lookout - alleges that Mason conned him out of three hundred thousand dollars by promising a corn shipment from Argentina which never arrived.  When he pressed Mason for the return of the cash – he alleged that he and his wife were abducted form his home on Intelco Hill and taken to Mason’s Ranch where they were threatened/ all messages to and form Mason were also deleted from their phones, and he was allegedly told to pay Mason 2,500 dollars weekly to avoid further violence.  Friessen fled the country weeks later, then recently returned after the Mason arrest to make his statement, and left again fearing for his safety. 

Well, that’s the statement, which will now be used to bring additional charges against Mason and his crew.  We’ll have that in tomorrow’s news.

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