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FILE - In this undated file photo provided by Raleigh/Wake City-County Bureau of Identification, Kelvin Melton is shown. A North Carolina prosecutor was the intended target of an elaborate kidnapping plot, but the kidnappers looked up the wrong address on the Internet and abducted the prosecutor's father instead, according to an indictment released Tuesday, April 22, 2014. Authorities have said the kidnapping was retaliation for Colleen Janssen's prosecution of Melton for his involvement in a 2011 shooting. Melton, a high-ranking member of the Bloods gang, orchestrated the abduction from behind bars using a cellphone, the indictment said. (AP Photo/Raleigh/Wake City-County Bureau of Identification, File)
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** FILE ** In this undated file photo provided by Raleigh/Wake City-County Bureau of Identification, Kelvin Melton is shown. A North Carolina prosecutor was the intended target of an elaborate kidnapping plot, but the kidnappers looked up the wrong address on the Internet and abducted the prosecutor's father instead, according to an indictment released Tuesday, April 22, 2014. Authorities have said the kidnapping was retaliation for Colleen Janssen's prosecution of Melton for his involvement in a 2011 shooting. (AP Photo/Raleigh/Wake City-County Bureau of Identification, File)
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John Strong, FBI special agent in charge of North Carolina, is displayed on a camera monitor as he addresses the media during a news conference at the Wake Forest Town Hall on Thursday, April 10, 2014, in Wake Forest, N.C. Strong said the kidnapping of Frank Arthur Janssen was related to his daughter's prosecution of North Carolina prisoner Kelvin Melton, who is serving a life sentence for his 2012 conviction for being a habitual felon. Melton, 49, was also convicted of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)
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John Strong, special agent in charge of the FBI in North Carolina, addresses members of the media during a press conference at the Wake Forest Town Hall on Thursday, April 10, 2014, in Wake Forest, N.C. Strong said the kidnapping of Frank Arthur Janssen was related to his daughter's prosecution of North Carolina prisoner Kelvin Melton, who is serving a life sentence for his 2012 conviction for being a habitual felon. Melton, 49, was also convicted of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. (AP Photo/The News & Observer, Corey Lowenstein) MANDATORY CREDIT, TV OUT
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In this undated photo provided by Raleigh/Wake City-County Bureau of Identification Kelvin Melton is shown. Frank Arthur Janssen was rescued by an elite FBI team after he was kidnapped and terrorized for five days. John Strong, the FBI's agent in charge for North Carolina, said the kidnapping was related to Janssen's daughter's prosecution of Melton, who is serving a life sentence for ordering the shooting of a man in 2011. (AP Photo/Raleigh/Wake City-County Bureau of Identification)
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John Strong, FBI special agent in charge of North Carolina, addresses members of the media during a press conference at the Wake Forest Town Hall on Thursday, April 10, 2014, in Wake Forest, N.C. Strong said the kidnapping of Frank Arthur Janssen was related to his daughter's prosecution of North Carolina prisoner Kelvin Melton, who is serving a life sentence for his 2012 conviction for being a habitual felon. Melton, 49, was also convicted of assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed)
