Kidnapped US Forest Service employees released after more than 12 hours, say authorities

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Two US Forest Service employees were released early on Friday morning after being held hostage for more than 12 hours, authorities in far northern California said. Law enforcement officers arrested two men for the alleged kidnapping near Gumboot Lake in Shasta-Trinity national forest, Jeremiah LaRue, the Siskiyou county sheriff, told reporters on Friday afternoon. The incident began on Thursday morning before 11am, the sheriff said. His office received a call from a USFS law enforcement officer reporting that a man had the two employees restrained with zip ties and was holding them at gunpoint inside a trailer. The man was later identified as Joseph Charles Henrichsen, 49. The call set…