1 felony charge dropped in captives case PHILADELPHIA, June 9 (UPI) -- One felony charge has been dismissed against three people accused of kidnapping and imprisoning four mentally disabled adults found in a Philadelphia basement. A judge Friday dismissed a charge of neglect of a dependent-care person against Linda Ann Weston, her boyfriend, Gregory Thomas, and Eddie Wright, a street preacher from Texas, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. Common Pleas Court Judge Daniel J. Anders said prosecutors didn't prove the three defendants had ever been the designated caretakers of the alleged victims, found locked in October in a filthy boiler room in the Philadelphia basement of a building where Weston's daughter, Jean McIntosh, lived. Weston, Thomas and Wright have been charged with imprisoning the four adults for years, moving them around the country, confining them in attics, closets and basements, starving them, beating them and collecting their government checks. McIntosh also is charged with kidnapping, false imprisonment and other offenses. George Yacoubian Jr., Weston's attorney, said the charge of neglect of a dependent-care person charge was designed to protect people cared for by nurses or others who enter an agreement to provide services. Wright's attorney, Louis D'Onofrio, has argued Wright was a victim of Weston, not an accomplice. In February, a judge dismissed charges against him, but prosecutors appealed and were granted a new hearing in which a judge held Wright for trial, the Inquirer said.