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Code · Wisconsin · Chapter 940 — Crimes against life and bodily security

940.305 Taking hostages.

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940.305 Taking hostages.
(1)Except as provided in sub.
(2), whoever by force or threat of imminent force seizes, confines or restrains a person without the person’s consent and with the intent to use the person as a hostage in order to influence a person to perform or not to perform some action demanded by the actor is guilty of a Class B felony.
(2)Whoever commits a violation specified under sub.
(1)is guilty of a Class C felony if, before the time of the actor’s arrest, each person who is held as a hostage is released without bodily harm.
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