The two teenage brothers who were kidnapped from their Catonsville home last week then reappeared safely three days later provided no new information to detectives during an interview, police said.
“The two victims were here for moments,” said Baltimore County Police spokesman Cpl. Mike Hill. “We gleaned no additional information from that interview with them. We don?t have a whole lot of information to go on right now.”
Police met with the teens around 3:30 p.m. Friday after a family member brought the kidnapped boys to police.
Officers have made no arrests in the case.
In a brazen crime that captured widespread attention, six armed, masked men abducted Sterling Blackwell, 15, and Stephon Blackwell, 16, on April 1 in the 600 block of Plymouth Road, according to police. A woman in the house was allegedly sexually assaulted during the home invasion, in which victims were bound and gagged, police said.
Officers from several federal law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, joined Baltimore County and Baltimore City police in the hunt. Hundreds of tips poured in to law enforcement as state police launched an Amber Alert.
In the moments after the kidnapping, police found several victims at the house ? occupied by the boys, their mother and seven adults who did not live there ? to be uncooperative. Officers needed to detain two people inside to question them and confiscated a sizable sum of money from one man, police said.
Police have said they are looking into whether the kidnapping was connected to the city?s bustling drug trade.
Several members of the Blackwell family, including the two boys, their older brother and their father, have been arrested on drug charges.
Detectives in Baltimore City had worried that if the teens were not found alive, the incident could escalate the violence between the city?s warring drug factions ? particularly in East Baltimore.
Police recovered a 2004 BMW 645 convertible with tinted windows they say was used in the kidnapping, but continue to search for a dark Chevrolet Suburban with blacked-out windows.
The investigation is ongoing.
