A 14-year-old in Wisconsin has been arrested and charged as an adult after he allegedly orchestrated the abduction of a 7-year-old boy who was then held for a $100,000 ransom. Barry Alan Coleman was formally charged last week with one count each of forcible kidnapping , taking hostages as a party to a crime, possession of a firearm by an adjudicated delinquent, and possession of a dangerous weapon by a person under 18 in the abduction of Jamal White, records show.

Two other men, 25-year-old Corey Williams and 38-year-old Fabian Johnson, have also been charged in connection with the case.

Coleman allegedly planned to rob the victim's mother. When she wasn't home, the trio targeted the victim's father instead, but when he fled, they grabbed White.

According to a probable cause affidavit,

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