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		</div><h6><span style="color:#140101;">Leonard Benitez pretended to borrow a cup of salt from his elderly neighbors Louis and Irene Rosen before terrorizing them</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#140101;">Benitez, 45, pressed the 99-year-old Louis and his 70-year-old wife for $50,000, while holding them hostage in their Tamarac, Florida, home </span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#140101;">Leonard Benitez pretended asked to borrow a cup of salt from the Rosens in their Tamarac, Florida, home July 21</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#140101;">He held the couple hostage and pressed the 99-year-old and his 70-year-old wife for $50,000</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#140101;">Benitez reportedly pistol whipped Louis in the head with his gun</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#140101;">His wife had managed to escape the home and alert authorities but had to leave her husband temporarily behind</span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#140101;">Arrested and charged, Sunday, he is held without bond in jail </span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#140101;">Benitez faces charges of home invasion, battery, kidnapping and false imprisonment</span></h6>
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<h6 class="imageCaption"><img class="alignnone wp-image-219610" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/leonard-benitez-1.png" alt="Leonard Benitez 1.png" width="665" height="713" /><strong>Leonard Benitez pretended to borrow a cup of salt from his elderly neighbors Louis and Irene Rosen before he pressed the 99-year-old and his wife for $50,000, while holding them hostage in their Tamarac, Florida, home on Friday</strong></h6>
<p class="imageCaption">Although his retired neighbors shared almost 180 years between them it did not deter Leonard Benitez from kidnapping and terrorizing them for ransom money.<br />
Benitez, 45, asked to borrow a cup of salt from Louis and Irene Rosen in their Tamarac, Florida, home before he pressed the 99-year-old and his wife Irene, 70, for ransom on Friday</p>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">The help seeking neighbor has been charged on Sunday with holding his elderly neighbors hostage in Florida after he pulled out a gun and knife and kept Rosens captive.<br />
&#8216;I was scared to death,&#8217; Irene Rosen said to ABC 10.<br />
According to the Broward Sheriff&#8217;s Office spokeswoman Gina Carter,Benitez pistol whipped Louis in the head with his gun, leaving him withe severe lacerations.<br />
His wife had managed to escape the home and alert authorities but had to leave her husband temporarily behind so she could get help. <img class="alignnone wp-image-219701" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/louis-and-irene-rosen-3.png" alt="Louis and Irene Rosen 3" width="734" height="417" />Irene Rosen [<strong>sitting right of husband louis</strong>], did managed to elude her captor and escape the home to alert authorities but had to leave her husband temporarily behind so she could get help.<br />
&#8216;I am not a gun person. I&#8217;ve never been around guns,&#8217; Irene Mrs Rosen said.<br />
Benitez fled the scene, running to a nearby house where he was staying supposedly with family. A swat team was finally able to take him into custody.<br />
Louis Rosen was taken to North Broward Health, where he required staples in the back of his head to stitch up lacerations and cuts from the Benitez assault.</p>
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<h6 class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery"><img class="alignnone wp-image-219697" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/louis-rosen-3.png" alt="Louis Rosen 3" width="704" height="430" /><strong>According to the Broward Sheriff&#8217;s Office, Benitez pistol whipped the home owner in the head. Louis Rosen would need staples in the back of his head for the injury </strong><br />
<img class="alignnone wp-image-219640" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/leonard-benitez-pistol-whipped-louis-rosen-who-needed-staples-to-patch-up-the-injuries.png" alt="Leonard Benitez pistol whipped Louis Rosen, who needed staples to patch up the injuries .png" width="808" height="428" /><strong>EMTs transport 99-year-old Louis Rosen to hospital for treatment</strong></h6>
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<h6 class="overlay-icon mobile-gallery"><img class="alignnone wp-image-219639" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/leonard-beitez-is-arrested-2.png" alt="Leonard Beitez is arrested 2.png" width="678" height="506" /><strong>Benitez was arrested by deputies at a nearby house. He was charged Sunday with kidnapping and assault</strong></h6>
<div>Benitez fled the scene, running to a nearby house where he was staying supposedly with family. A swat team was finally able to take him into custody</div>
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<p class="mol-para-with-font">&#8216;I try to think of the positive and say, &#8220;What an adventure we had,&#8221; an adventure I could have done without,&#8217; Mrs Rosen added.<br />
Benitez was arrested on home invasion, battery, kidnapping and false imprisonment charges. He is being held without bond in jail.<br />
On Sunday a judge instructed the alleged kidnapper to stay away from the Rosen family.</p>
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Elderly Florida couple held hostage by neighbor, Leonard Benitez, who demanded $50,000 ransom – The Rosen family let him in when he asked to borrow SALT
