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TACONY (NE-Philadelphia)- October 16, 2011 (WPVI) -- Chained like animals and locked behind a subbasement door, police found four mentally challenged adults wasting away in an apartment building.
"This case just makes you shake your head; I it's despicable and unspeakable," Philadelphia Police Deputy Commissioner Richard Ross said.
Late Saturday night, police told Action News how three men and a woman ranging from ages 29 to 41 were discovered in the subbasement of an apartment building on Longshore Avenue in the Tacony section of Northeast Philadelphia.
They were malnourished with bedsores and surrounded by deplorable conditions and two dogs.
"When you look at the conditions under which they were kept, it's something out of a dungeon actually," Ross said.
The victims were freed from their 15 foot by 15 foot prison and treated at a hospital.
Detectives went on the hunt for the people who held them captive and uncovered a human trafficking case which possibly started in Texas, made a stop in Florida, and ended up here.
Police believe the caregivers only took in the mentally disabled victims to get a hold of their social security checks.
Three people have been arrested, two men and a 50-year-old woman who is being called the ring leader.
"They'll be charged with pretty much everything we can find in the crime's code, from aggravated assault to kidnapping to false imprisonment, you name it, we're going to stick it on them," Philadelphia Police Lt. Ray Evers said.
Investigators believe the victims were put into that small room about 10 days ago when they were moved from Florida.
Rob Hoey lives in the building and never heard a thing.
"I work with people like that for years and I have a soft spot for people who are mentally challenged, so that's the thing that hurts the most," Hoey said.
Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey has ordered his officers to continue holding that scene on Longshore Avenue. Several city agencies are now involved in this case and the FBI has also been called in.

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Ladybbird

That is just terrible! and I know just the place when that scum should serve their time,,,,,,, the cellars of the old Alcatraz. The powers that be have denied it exists. But I have been down there and seen it for myself.

Chain them up, give them the same as what they put those poor people through!

Is it known who reported to the authorities what was going on?

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People Rescued From Philly Basement Speak.

From Sarah Hoye, CNN
updated 7:01 AM EST, Tue October 18, 2011


4 disabled adults locked in basement.

Philadelphia (CNN) -- Three of the four mentally disabled people recently rescued from a dingy, urine-scented basement boiler room spoke about their harrowing experience locked in what some in the media have dubbed the dungeon of horrors.
"That was real dirty of you. That was wrong," a tearful Derwin McLemire told CNN affiliate KYW Monday.
McLemire was one of four people found locked in a sub-basement room Saturday, with no food and only a bucket for a toilet, police said. The pitch-black, 15-foot-by-6-foot space houses what police described as a boiler used to heat the building. A penetrating stench of urine and feces still hung in the chamber days after the discovery. McLemire was found chained to the boiler, authorities said.
The alleged victims said they were beaten and were afraid of the suspects in the case.
Tamara Breeden told KYW one suspect, Linda Ann Weston, hit her in the head, "and all this was bleeding and everything."
The three suspects -- Gregory Thomas, 47, Eddie Wright, 49, and Weston, 51 -- face charges including criminal conspiracy, aggravated assault, kidnapping, criminal trespass, unlawful restraint and false imprisonment, Philadelphia police said Sunday. Police said they were investigating whether the victims' Social Security checks had been stolen, as well as several other leads.
McLemire, Breeden and a third man, Herbert Knowles, told KYW their Social Security information was taken from them.
Bond for each of the three suspects was set at $2.5 million, according to the Philadelphia district attorney's office. The FBI joined the probe after detectives discovered one of the accused had traveled to at least two other states with the people found in the basement of the northeast Philadelphia apartment building, police spokesman Lt. Ray Evers said.
McLemire, who said he is from North Carolina, said once he attempted to escape from a home of Weston's, "and I didn't get away, so they got me."
Authorities were still trying to unravel the shocking details about the case.
Police found identification documents for dozens of people when they arrested Weston, who served eight years in prison for killing her sister's boyfriend in the early 1980s, said Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey. In that case, the victim "was held captive for an extended period of time, locked in a closet and he literally starved to death," Ramsey said.
"That concerns us because obviously, she's capable of quite a bit of a lot of different things," he said.
And Weston is believed to have been in McLean, Texas, with some or all of the alleged captives. They then traveled to Florida and Philadelphia, Evers said. All seven had been traveling together, Evers said, but he did not know for how long.
Police departments as far away as Florida are looking into possible connections between the Philadelphia captives and missing persons cases in their towns. Chase Scott, a West Palm Beach police spokesman, said a 15-year-old girl listed as an endangered runaway since July was last seen in the company of Thomas' teenage son there.
Scott told CNN that Thomas was arrested in West Palm Beach on a burglary charge in July and was a suspect in a grand theft case later that month. Authorities initially identified Gregory Thomas as Thomas Gregory, and later corrected the name.
A preliminary hearing on the charges and evidence in the case was set for October 24. No pleas were entered on Monday, with that to happen at a formal arraignment at a date yet to be set.
The building's owner, Turgut Gozleveli, discovered the four captives after being informed that people were milling in and out of his basement, where no one was supposed to be. Gozleveli said he checked out the basement Thursday and found a few things out of place, but no people. On Friday, he found a dog dish and thought one of his tenants was attempting to conceal a pet.
On Saturday, after hearing a dog barking, he went to the building's sub-basement and found a door chained shut. After removing the chain and going inside, he found the four.
The alleged victims were brought out on stretchers, said Danyell Tisdale, the block captain who notified Gozleveli. She said she was concerned about some of the things she'd seen recently, including people being brought in from the back of a sport utility vehicle with out-of-state plates.
"I hope I did enough," she said. "I called."

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