Feds charged three men in a lawyer Rolex kidnapping.

A federal kidnapping indictment is an accusation. On Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York charged Dani Amanuel, Kibret Meles, and Kenny Fetiere with conspiracy to commit kidnapping and kidnapping after a June 12 attack that allegedly began outside Rick's Cabaret on West 33rd Street in Manhattan and ended with an unidentified visiting lawyer abandoned near a nature preserve in West Orange, New Jersey. Life exposure on those counts is the statutory maximum, not a sentence, and Amanuel remained at large as of Tuesday afternoon while Meles and Fetiere were arrested.

Reporting by the New York Post said the victim, a lawyer in town for work who has not been publicly identified, was allegedly lured into a Hyundai outside the club shortly before 4 a.m. on June 12 under the guise of a ride back to his hotel, then punched and stabbed during a drive through the Lincoln Tunnel into New Jersey. Prosecutors said the crew took a Rolex and an iPhone and that a cyclist found the victim bloodied about 5:30 a.m. He was hospitalized for three days with broken bones around the eyes, a lacerated finger needing stitches, and bruising. Those are the charging narrative and the reported injuries. They are not findings of guilt.

Meles, 28, of Livingston, New Jersey, and Fetiere, 26, of West Orange, were arrested Tuesday morning and were awaiting a first appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Stewart D. Aaron, with the case assigned to U.S. District Judge John G. Koeltl. Amanuel, 28, of Manhattan, remained at large as of Tuesday afternoon. Prosecutors are seeking detention pending trial. A fourth man is cooperating with the feds, according to the reporting. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.