The family and a man who helped them have been arrested after the four-hour ordeal, which included blindfolding the boy and telling him he would never “see his mommy again.”

The boy's aunt, Denise Kroutil, 38, asked her coworker, 23-year-old Nathan Wynn Firoved, to stage the kidnapping, telling him, "our [child] is too nice, he's too open, he's too polite," Lt. Andy Binder of the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office told NBC News.

The boy's mother, Elizabeth Hupp, 25, and grandmother, Rose Brewer, 58, went along with the plan.

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Firoved drove the boy around with his hands and feet bound with plastic bags and his vision obscured with a jacket.

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