Men Found Captive in Houston Home Officers responding to a 911 call Friday found four elderly and middle-aged men who had been held against their will at a home in north Houston so their captors could collect and cash their welfare checks, the authorities said. The men appeared to have been held captive for weeks or months in a garage converted into a living area of the brown-brick home with purple trim. It was a bare room with a linoleum floor, no beds, no bathrooms and a window air-conditioning unit that may not have been working, said a spokeswoman for the Houston Police Department Three of the men were taken to a hospital to be treated for malnourishment. They may have been homeless, and enticed to come to the house with offers of food and cigarettes, officials said. A suspect was detained, but no charges were filed.