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A 43-year-old Greenleaf man will spend at least 10 years in prison in connection with a bizarre kidnapping and battery in May 2008.
Third District Judge Renae Hoff sentenced Lonnie Dale Knie Jr. to up to 20 years for first-degree kidnapping; Knie will be eligible for parole after 10 years. At the same time, he will serve five to 10 years for battery with the intent to commit a serious felony and five years for a previous charge of marijuana possession with the intent to sell.
According to court records, Knie and two women, Rochelle Saucedo and Kathaleena Bowen, tied up a 38-year-old Nampa man and severely beat him, first at a Middleton home and then at a Caldwell second-hand store co-owned by Knie. A third woman, Wanda Bisby, was accused of luring the victim on false pretenses to her Middleton home, where the other three suspects waited.
Bisby pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting robbery and was sentenced Nov. 6 to at least eight years in prison. Saucedo, who investigators said was the victim's boyfriend, pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting a kidnapping and also was scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday. Bowen is scheduled for trial in March on charges of kidnapping, battery and robbery.
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