SEATTLE — Investigators allege a kidnapping and robbery in Bellevue was a plot to find a “snitch” who was accused of leaking information to police from a social media group that promotes street racing across King County.
Police in several cities have been investigating the “seattlebeamerboys” account on Instagram after it posted videos for months of drivers taunting officers and engaging in reckless driving.
According to charges filed this week, 17-year-old Anton Victorovich Urnyshev of Redmond used the group’s Instagram account to lure a teen boy to a park in Bellevue before kidnapping him at gunpoint and forcing him to give up his debit card, which was used to withdraw thousands of dollars at ATMs…