Crime Alert, I'm Nancy Grace, breaking crime news now.

Denver PD get a tip, a man may be in danger from his housemates.

They perform a welfare check, but the two men that open the door claim they haven't seen

their roommate in days in a back back bedroom the man's two other

roommates are holding him down. They haven't let him leave in two days. Later that

afternoon the man makes it to a police station missing a finger.

He says his roommates refused to let him leave due to a dispute over money.

Nancy authorities did not have the power to enter the home based on the evidence at hand, forced to take the two

residents at their word. The victim says his roommates cut off his finger after he had been

held captive for roughly 12 hours.

The suspects left the shared home hours after the welfare check,

and the victim was able to escape his restraints.

Investigators are still working to determine if the kidnapping could be gang-related,

but currently believe it to be an isolated incident.

Rumeets Jose Panader Moreno 19 in Darwin-Gonzales 34, now charged with kidnap, assault, and criminal extortion.

Ohio cops, check out a report, a giant jackalantrons blocking traffic.

They find a giant inflatable pumpkin had flown from

someone's yard and is now blocking half the road. As an officer tries to

remove the pumpkin, the gigantic inflatable knocks into the ground and he can't get out from under it

until his partner steps in. With backup the cops managed to return the

decoration back to its owners who plan to add extra ties to keep it down next year.

More crime and justice news after this.

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