Man says he was kidnapped, hunted in woods

A 38-year-old Hudson man says he was kidnapped Saturday morning, dropped in the woods and then hunted by four men carrying a bow and arrows.

The victim told Pasco County sheriff's deputies that he was at a BP gas station at 13703 U.S. 19 between 7 and 8 a.m., when he says he was approached by four males and forced into a vehicle. The man told deputies that he knows two of his attackers because they had previously sold him crack cocaine. The victim's assailants took him to the edge of the woods and let him out of the vehicle.

"You better run, we're going to get you," the attackers reportedly said before aiming at the man. The victim told deputies that he could see arrows hitting the ground around him as he ran and that he was sure he was going to die. The men followed him throughout the day and night.

The victim finally found his way out of the woods Sunday around 5 p.m. and flagged someone down along Dixie Highway to ask for help, according to sheriff's deputies. The victim was taken to Regional Medical Center Bayonet Point. No arrests have been made.