Magazine sales meeting in Washington state ends in beatings, arrests

Wash. magazine sales meeting ends in beatings

TACOMA, Wash. — A meeting of magazine salesmen at a motel in Washington state ended with two in the hospital and six in jail.

KOMO-TV reports that when two of the men said Monday night they wanted out of the business, they were beaten with baseball bats and golf clubs.

Police stopped a car that was driving away with its lights out and found a man armed with a gun and brass knuckles. All six men in the car were arrested.

KOMO reports that the door-to-door subscription operation was a scam in which young men claiming to make a fresh start in life take donations without delivering magazines.

Information from: KOMO-TV, www.komotv.com/