Police have arrested two men accused of kidnapping and burning the owner of a marijuana dispensary in Riverside.
The suspects, identified as a business partner and supplier of the victim, tied him up and repeatedly tortured the man inside the business on Arlington Avenue near Monroe Street Thursday, June 13 and Friday, June 14, according to a Riverside Police Department news release.
The victim was then taken to another location, where he remained under threats that his family would be killed, until he fled and called authorities on Sunday.
The man, who had been taken to a hospital by firefighters and paramedics, told police he had been having a dispute with the suspects over money owed and product that had been delivered to the store, police Sgt. Dan Russell reported in the news release.
Russell declined by phone to discuss details of the torture, including how the burns were inflicted. He said the burns were so severe that detectives are asking prosecutors to charge the two men with torture.
..Russell said the dispensary has been closed for about two weeks.
