Six young men face federal kidnapping charges after allegedly abducting two people at gunpoint from the parking garage of the Margaritaville Hollywood Beach Resort in Florida, then hauling them to a remote boat ramp where they were robbed, stripped, threatened with mutilation, and forced to hand over money, according to recently unsealed court documents.

The charges, kidnapping and conspiracy to commit kidnapping, landed on Saul Alfonso Fajardo, 19; Justin Phihoang Le, 20; Amari Tamire Hill, 21; Anthony Teruel Hernandez, 18; Marikevies McNichols Jr., 19; and Weilen Hernandez, 20. All six were arrested, Fox News Digital reported, citing an FBI affidavit and the unsealed complaint.

The details in those court filings read less like a crime on a sunny Florida boardwalk and more like a cartel abduction, masked suspects in latex gloves, pliers brandished as instruments of torture, a gunshot fired for intimidation, and one victim eventually left wandering a suburban neighborhood in his underwear.

How the night of May 29 unfolded

Court documents lay out a sequence that began with a ruse. One suspect allegedly pressured a victim and a witness to attend a car show in a remote part of Broward County. Instead, the two victims met "Saul", identified as Fajardo, and an unidentified female suspect at the Margaritaville parking garage on the night of May 29.

What happened next was no car show. Several armed, masked individuals allegedly forced the two victims into separate vehicles at gunpoint. An FBI agent wrote in the affidavit that the suspects wore "shiesty" masks. Hill allegedly slammed one victim onto a car and shoved him into the passenger seat.

Phihoang, riding with one of the victims, allegedly wasted no time making threats. Court documents attribute a string of statements to him: "If you try to get out, I'm going to end your life," and "I am going to kill you and your family." He allegedly demanded the victim call friends and beg for money if he wanted to survive.

The other victim was held at gunpoint in a second car.

West Broward Boat Ramp: 'The spot'

Both victims were driven to the West Broward Boat Ramp, a location one suspect allegedly called "the spot." An FBI agent stated that both were "forced to kneel at gunpoint." They were robbed of their phones, jewelry, clothing, and other personal items. One victim was forced to send $400 through Zelle.

The threats escalated. Phihoang allegedly told one victim:

"If I don't get my money, every 10 minutes I'm going to take one of your fingernails."

The victim, court documents state, "observed a pair of pliers inside the car and believed they were going to pull his fingernails off, so he continued calling people in an attempt to get money." The New York Post reported that the suspects also wore latex gloves during the abduction, a detail that suggests planning rather than impulse.

Hill allegedly fired a round into the air while on a video call, court documents say the shot was fired "in an attempt to let the person on the phone know they were serious."

Phihoang allegedly added a tattoo-related threat to the ordeal: "I'm gonna burn the tattoo off of you, you don't deserve to have it. I'm going to torture you." When the victim reacted, Phihoang allegedly told him, "Don't cry."

The FBI has handled a number of high-stakes hostage and captivity situations in recent months, including a standoff in Bakersfield where agents confronted a suspect holding school employees hostage. But the Broward County case stands apart for its sheer cruelty toward victims who appear to have been lured by people they knew.

Escape, evidence burning, and a walk home in underwear

One victim was eventually dropped off in a subdivision in Cooper City. Stripped of nearly everything, he walked to a relative's home wearing only underwear. Court documents describe him as being "in fear for his life."

The second victim's escape was more desperate. He allegedly observed the suspects "burning something" and heard someone say, "We have to burn the evidence." At that point, court documents state, the victim "began to panic" and faked a seizure. He was put into a car, then thrown out of it, and eventually made his way to safety. The documents note, "He got jump injuries."

Before releasing the victims, Phihoang allegedly issued a final warning: "I will kill your family if you go to the police. We are not done."

Authorities later recovered burned clothing and additional items belonging to the victims at the boat ramp, along with surveillance videos. Messages between the unidentified female suspect and Fajardo allegedly confirm that the first victim was assaulted.

In a related detail, one suspect allegedly sent a message reading "DELETE INSTA", an apparent attempt to scrub digital evidence after the fact.

Charges filed, questions remain

All six men now face federal charges of kidnapping and conspiracy to commit kidnapping. Fox News Digital reported that it reached out to lawyers for all named suspects for comment; no responses were noted.

The court document was described only as "recently unsealed." The issuing court, case number, and docket information have not been publicly identified. The identities of the two victims remain sealed. The identity and charging status of the female suspect mentioned in the filings are also unclear.

No information about the suspects' pleas or any court proceedings beyond the arrests has surfaced. Whether any of the victims sustained medically confirmed injuries, beyond the "jump injuries" referenced in the filings, remains unknown.

The FBI's role in investigating kidnapping cases has drawn attention in other recent matters, including ransom notes allegedly timed to torment a missing woman's family, a case that underscored the psychological dimension of abduction-related crimes.

A resort town, a violent crime, and the people who live with it

Margaritaville Hollywood Beach Resort sits along the Hollywood Beach Boardwalk, a 2.5-mile promenade on the Atlantic Ocean marketed to families and tourists. The idea that an armed kidnapping allegedly unfolded in its parking garage, and that the victims were driven to a remote location, robbed, threatened with mutilation, and stripped, is the kind of crime that forces a community to reckon with what happened on its doorstep.

The suspects range in age from 18 to 21. The allegations describe coordinated action: multiple vehicles, masks, gloves, weapons, a designated location, threats calibrated to extract money, and an attempt to destroy physical evidence afterward. If the charges hold, this was not a spontaneous act. It was planned.

Investigations involving victims held against their will have tested federal law enforcement repeatedly, from a 12-hour bank standoff in Bakersfield to cases where cooperation between local and federal agencies proved decisive. In Broward County, the Broward County Sheriff's Office and the FBI appear to have worked the case together, recovering surveillance footage and physical evidence at the boat ramp.

The open questions are significant. Who is the female suspect, and will she face charges? What do the surveillance videos show? Will additional charges, robbery, assault, witness intimidation, follow? And what motivated six young men to allegedly orchestrate this level of violence against people they apparently knew well enough to lure?

Those answers will come in court, if they come at all. For now, the unsealed filings speak for themselves, and what they describe is a community's worst nightmare carried out in a place built for vacations.

The victims in this case did what citizens are supposed to do: they survived, they reported, and they trusted law enforcement to act. The system owes them accountability, not just arrests, but convictions that match the gravity of what allegedly happened on that boat ramp.