The attackers tortured the dispensary owner, tasing him, burning him with bleach, severing his penis and leaving him in the desert. He was rescued after his housemate made it back to the road and hailed a passing sheriff’s deputy. The acts he committed were diabolical.”AdvertisementProsecutors said Nayeri had been the ringleader of the abduction plot. At the trial, Nayeri’s former wife, Cortney Shegerian, testified that she helped Nayeri perform surveillance on the pot dispensary owner. One of Nayeri’s accomplices in the abduction plot, Kyle Handley, is serving a life sentence after jurors convicted him in 2018 of kidnapping and torture.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 30, 2020 21:23 UTC