kidnapping

A Washington D.C. woman reportedly kidnapped at gunpoint by her boyfriend earlier today has thankfully been found.

A Black man in South Florida was arrested this week after he tried to kidnap a biracial autistic 5-year-old child away from his white father because he questioned paternity.

A gang that kidnapped 17 members of a U,S.-based missionary group has demanded a $17 million ransom for them, according to Haiti’s justice minister, as quoted by the Wall Street Journal.

After escaping Boko Haram kidnappers nearly a decade ago, survivors Joy Bishara and Lydia Pogu have reached even greater heights by graduating college from Southeastern University in Lakeland, Florida.

MACON, Ga. (AP) — Authorities in Georgia are searching for a man accused of fatally shooting three people in his child’s mother’s family, and then leaving with the child. Caesar Zamien Lamar Crockett Jr., 29, is wanted on three counts of murder and one count of kidnapping, according to a statement from the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office. […]

Sarah Peterson and Roberta Peterson are a mother-daughter duo who were recently brought together under miraculous circumstances. In July 1966, Sarah Peterson was a sixteen-year-old girl who had just given birth to a baby girl named Roberta. Ostracized from her family, Sarah was forced to go it alone, barely making ends meet while living in […]

UPDATE 12/17/19:  16-year-old Karol Sanchez has been found. Journalist Kemberly Richardson is reporting that the teenager was returned at a park near the location she was kidnapped from.   ORIGINAL STORY: Karol Sanchez, 16, was snatched off a Bronx street right in front of her mother Monday night. According to NBC4 police are investigating the […]

A Georgia man was arrested on a number of felony charges after his alleged victim texted 911 and reported being held captive, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. The woman texted 911 about 1:30 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 28, according to a statement from Brookhaven police Monday. Dispatchers began receiving messages in Spanish, and used an online […]

A cop in Cleveland, Ohio to be specific, is under fire from prosecutors who vow to make sure he “never wears the badge of a police officer again.” The officer, 34, was taken into custody earlier this week on accusations he tried to kidnap a 12-year-old girl at a school bus stop. Not only that, […]

Police received report of a kidnapping and when they began to investigate they brought in the FBI. The FBI realized the 24-year-old man faked his own kidnapping. Apparently he did it to get ransom money from a family member. Damon laughs and wonders what kind of family he has that would have “kidnapping money” just […]

CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago woman and her adult daughter were formally charged Wednesday in the killing of a pregnant teenager whose baby was cut from her womb with a butcher knife. Clarisa Figueroa, 46, and her 24-year-old daughter, Desiree Figueroa, are charged with first-degree murder in the April 23 killing of 19-year-old Marlen Ochoa-Lopez, […]

A Georgia man has reportedly been accused of shooting 2 women and kidnapping one of them before fleeing to South Carolina. Ralph Jones Jr., 27, faces five felonies from the alleged string of incidents, which took place Monday, Winder police said in a news release. The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports, witnesses said they heard three […]