Father and son arrested after holding two Forest Service workers at gunpoint0

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• July 18, 2026

REDDING, California.- A father and son are expected to face federal kidnapping charges after they tied up two U.S. Forest Service employees and held them at gunpoint inside a trailer in Northern California near Mount Shasta. Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz said the two workers were conducting routine field operations in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest