4 nabbed in Rome for kidnapping kid

(ANSA) - Rome, April 22 - Four people were arrested in Rome Friday on suspicion of kidnapping a 9-year-old boy to force his mother to return a drug shipment worth some 5,000 euros, police said. The boy was freed by police after 48 hours. Police arrested a man, 25, with a long criminal record, his 30-year-old sister, his 54-year-old mother and another 25-year-old man who allegedly made his house available for the kidnapping. The arrested are accused of kidnapping for extortion, aggravated by the youth of the victim. The kidnapping gang was not immediately named, nor was the boy's mother. The boy's identity will remain a secret because of Italian legal rules.