Attorneys safe after saying they were kidnapped in Atlanta

<p>Two attorneys are safe Monday after one sent a text message to his brother saying the two had been kidnapped.</p><p>David Deganian sent the message early Sunday morning to his brother, Arman Deganian with a chilling message: "We've been kidnapped. Please call the police and help us."</p><p>The brothers and about a dozen other people had been at a housewarming party and walked to a nightclub in east Atlanta.</p><p>David Deganian, 26, and a friend, Herman Hoying, 28, stayed behind to pay a bar tab as everyone started to leave around 2:30 a.m., Arman Deganian said.</p><p>But David Deganian and Hoying never made it to the house. The truck they had arrived in was missing when Arman Deganian went out to look for his brother after receiving the text message.</p><p>The two men were walking robbed by four men wearing bandanas across their faces and wielding guns approached them, said David Deganian. After being robbed, the two were stuffed into a kidnapper's car and taken to an empty townhouse where they were held at gunpoint for more than 14 hours.</p><p>"The whole time, they had the guns and said not to look at them," David Deganian told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "I thought that this was how it was going to end for me."</p><p>Meanwhile, Arman Deganian was frantically calling his brother's cell phone.</p><p>"I was making a sandwich when I felt it go off," he told the newspaper. "I didn't think it was a joke. I called and texted back in response and didn't get anything."</p><p>By Sunday afternoon, Atlanta police had two men in custody. Christopher McFarland and Christopher Maddox were charged with armed robbery and kidnapping, said Officer Eric Schwartz, a spokesman for the Atlanta Police Department.</p><p>Police are now seeking two additional suspects who may have fled about 15 minutes before officers rescued the hostages.</p><p>The two attorneys were found unharmed in an abandoned home in south Atlanta. Schwartz said the police are still investigating what happened during the hours the men were missing.</p><p>Meanwhile, David Deganian said he was still in a daze after the kidnapping.</p><p>"I am still in shock a little bit," the 26-year-old public defender said. "I didn't think I was gonna get out of it."</p><p>___</p><p>HASH(0x2ded2b8)</p>