{"id":622542,"date":"2026-04-22T01:26:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T01:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/622542\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T01:26:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T01:26:15","slug":"boy-15-among-five-people-charged-over-alleged-kidnapping-of-rappers-bodyguard-in-sydneys-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/622542\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy, 15, among five people charged over alleged kidnapping of rapper’s bodyguard in Sydney’s west"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 15-year-old boy is among five people charged in connection with the alleged kidnapping of a rapper’s bodyguard in Sydney’s west.<\/p>\n

Police said a 32-year-old man was allegedly assaulted and forced into a car outside a home in Guildford about 11:30pm on Monday.<\/p>\n

A short time later, the vehicle was found partially burnt out in nearby Villawood.<\/p>\n

About an hour later, heavily armed officers zeroed in on a property in Casula where they found the man with facial injuries.<\/p>\n

The man allegedly kidnapped was Emilio Chalhoub, who is believed to be the personal bodyguard for rapper and alleged Alameddine associate Ali Younes, who performs under the name “Ay Huncho”.<\/p>\n

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“Ay Huncho”, aka Ali Younes, an alleged Alameddine associate who has been repeatedly targeted over the past year.\u00a0 (Four Corners: Nick Wiggins)<\/p>\n

About 3:20am, detectives raided the Casula property and allegedly seized a firearm, baseball bat and other items.<\/p>\n

Four men and a teenage boy were arrested and taken to Liverpool Police Station, where they have since been charged.<\/p>\n

A 22-year-old man from Blacktown was charged with kidnap in company with intent serious indict occasion actual bodily harm, participate and contribute to criminal group, possess unauthorised prohibited firearm, blacken or disguise face with intent to commit an indictable offence and destroy property in company use greater than $5,000.<\/p>\n

\"Guildford<\/p>\n

The 32-year-old was allegedly assaulted then forcibly taken.\u00a0 (ABC News: Gavin Coote)<\/p>\n

A 21-year-old man from Queensland, a 21-year-old man from Macquarie Fields and a 22-year-old man were also handed charges.<\/p>\n

They included kidnap in company with intent serious indict occasion actual bodily harm, participate and contribute in criminal group, blacken or disguise face with intent to commit an indictable offence, aggravated take or drive motor vehicle with person armed with weapon, possess unauthorised prohibited firearm and destroy property in company use greater than $5,000.<\/p>\n

The four men were refused bail and are due to appear at Liverpool Local Court on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

A 15-year-old boy will also face Children’s Court on kidnapping offences.<\/p>\n

His other charges include participate and contribute to criminal group, blacken or disguise face with intent to commit an indictable offence, aggravated take or drive motor vehicle with person armed with weapon, possess unauthorised prohibited firearm and destroy property in company use greater than $5,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 15-year-old boy is among five people charged in connection with the alleged kidnapping of a rapper’s bodyguard…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[184872,32477,114537,24278,64,63,301741,2025,2973,48,227694,56135,44,2733,4277,32031,670,300880,16391],"class_list":{"0":"post-622542","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-abduction","9":"tag-alameddine","10":"tag-ali-younes","11":"tag-assault","12":"tag-au","13":"tag-australia","14":"tag-casula","15":"tag-charges","16":"tag-courts","17":"tag-crime","18":"tag-guildford","19":"tag-kidnapping","20":"tag-news","21":"tag-nsw","22":"tag-nsw-police","23":"tag-organised-crime","24":"tag-sydney","25":"tag-villawood","26":"tag-western-sydney"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}