Captive reporter has link to area [Steve Centanni]

San Jose Mercury News ^ | August 16, 2006 | Leslie Griffy



Family members of a Bay Area native and Fox News reporter kidnapped in the Gaza Strip are worried, but hopeful his abductors will release him.
Steve Centanni, 60, and his cameraman, Olaf Wiig, were driving through the Palestinian territory Monday when unknown gunmen stopped and kidnapped them.


Centanni graduated from Los Altos High in 1964 and worked for local radio stations and KRON-TV before joining Fox, said his brother, Ken Centanni, who lives in San Jose.


Fox News representatives called Ken Centanni and another brother, Nicholas Centanni, of Los Gatos, early Monday to tell them of their brother's kidnapping.


``We are a little bit nervous right now because we haven't heard anything one way or the other from the kidnappers,'' Nicholas Centanni said. ``We talked with'' the Fox News ``negotiators last night, but they haven't heard from the kidnappers.''

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