6/10 Fresno, CA Former Employer Kidnaps and Plans Murder of Woman

Ricardo Zambrano, 36, and Alfonso Cuevas Gonzalez, 39, were charged with kidnapping, conspiracy to commit murder, carjacking and other charges when they took a woman outside her Menlo Park workplace in a plan to rape and murder her because she rebuffed Zambrano's romantic advances when she worked for him earlier in the year. The plan failed when the woman at whose house the crimes were supposed to occur didn't let Gonzalez inside. He was forced to bring the victim to another location. The victim later escaped with the help of another woman, an associate’s mother who learned of the crime. The attempted murder charges against the men were later dropped.