A Nebraska welder, who tried his hand at drug running after meeting cartel members at a Colorado concert, will spend decades in prison after kidnapping a suspected pot thief, torturing him and raping a woman he was with that night, according to local reports.
Tanner Danielson, 31, was sentenced to 40 to 50 years for kidnapping and 30 to 40 years for sexual assault after he abducted the two on July 29, 2022, prison records show.
He pleaded no contest to the charges in June.
Believing the cartel would harm his family if he did not recover 50 pounds of marijuana that had been stolen from his house, he kidnapped the pair, drugged the man, tortured him with a blowtorch and hung him from a forklift, according to the Lincoln Journal Star.
“Only a sadistic and evil person could do these things to another human being,” Judge Susan Strong told Danielson in court, according to the paper.
While the victim was tied up, Danielson used the torch to burn the word “thief” into his flesh.
Then, he raped the woman, drove the man 50 miles outside town and left him tied to a tree.
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