(ANTIMEDIA) Tennessee — In a strange and unfolding story, three men in Tennessee have been arrested and are facing charges after authorities caught them holding “patients” against their will in heavily secured secret facilities in the woods.
The Cannon Courier reported on May 3 that officers were dispatched to the location when someone inside of the compound’s units — several small cabins and a double-wide trailer — managed to place a 911 call.
“We proceeded up the hill through a gated, makeshift paddock that is secured externally with a steel latch,” an officer from the local sheriff’s department told the Courier. Officers say that when they approached one of the cabins, the man who made the call was “looking out through a Plexiglass window.”
The caretaker, identified as Dennis Flamond, was summoned, and he unlocked the cabin for authorities to enter. The man inside told officers he had been held there against his will for the last nine months, that he had been given unknown medications, and that all he wanted to do was go home.
As if the case weren’t strange enough, the Courier reports that the man told officers he originally went to the facilities to “have rehab and get cleansed through Scientology.”
An attorney involved with the case subsequently said the secret compound was not affiliated with the Church of Scientology in any way.
Emergency personnel was dispatched, and they and the officers transported the man to a nearby hospital. Once authorities began their investigation, it didn’t take long to discover that no one at the facilities was licensed to provide health care.
When authorities returned to the compound, they found Flamond, the “caretaker,” and another man — later identified as Hans Snyder Lytle, the “manager” — packing up their equipment. When officers searched the other cabins, they found another person, a woman, claiming to be held against her will.
Flamond and Lytle were arrested and have both plead guilty to two counts of false imprisonment. A third man, Marc Vallieres, has been charged with two felony counts of facilitation to kidnapping.
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