5 Charged With Torturing Home Loan Agents

KTLA
Five people are charged with torturing and robbing two loan modification agents they thought falsely promised to save their home from foreclosure. Two men were charged Monday with torture, robbery and false imprisonment.

Another man and two women pleaded not guilty to the same charges Friday. Prosecutors say Daniel Weston and Mary Ann Parmelee hired two loan modification agents in hopes of keeping their home but believed the men took their money and did nothing.

Prosecutors claim the victims were lured to Glendale on Oct. 20, held for hours, beaten and robbed before one escaped.Weston, Parmelee, Mario Gonzalez, Marissa Parker and Gustavo Canez remained jailed on about $1 million each. An attorney for Gonzalez and Parker says his clients are innocent and the loan modification agents were frauds.