State and federal law enforcement agencies teamed up to arrest an alleged human smuggler in West Texas who reportedly held a migrant toddler for ransom. The arrest followed a traffic stop by a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper working under Operation Lone Star.
A Nigerian Christian leader admitted his church paid a $240,000 ransom to secure his release from unidentified kidnappers after he was abducted in recent days, Voice of America (VOA) reported on Wednesday.
Unidentified gunmen abducted a one-year-old child along with an unknown number of children from the staff quarters of a hospital in northern Nigeria on Sunday, the BBC reported.
A police officer has pleaded guilty to the kidnap and rape of a woman as she walked home in south London and whose body was found in woods.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer quickly blamed President Trump for the alleged plotters of a kidnap conspiracy, but they hated Trump, too.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) claimed Thursday that President Donald Trump is “complicit” in stoking extremists like the ones who had planned an alleged plot to kidnap her and overthrow the state’s government.
A viral video of 26-year-old Amber Neal being arrested by LAPD officers captures the sound of onlookers being shocked by the show of force involved.
The Anderson County, South Carolina, coroner says 36-year-old Rodney Nixon allegedly kidnapped his ex-girlfriend then died after she shot him in the chest
LONDON (AP) — The man accused of kidnapping a British model in Italy painted a picture of big money, international intrigue and spine-chilling dealings as a member of Black Death, an organization selling drugs, guns and murder on the dark web.
LONDON (AP) — A British model who says she was lured to Milan and kidnapped by a man who allegedly threatened to auction her online is back in Britain and speaking to police after her “horrific ordeal,” her agent said Monday.
Abuja (AFP) – Two German archaeologists who were kidnapped while working at a dig site in northern Nigeria last week have been released and are doing well, the German foreign ministry said Sunday. “The two archaeologists from the Goethe University
Two of seven suspects in a case of abduction and violent sexual assault have been jailed for four years each by a Swedish court, with the others released for lack of evidence. The two so-called “stateless refugees” — so identified
An English woman has claimed she was abducted when she was just 15, and held captive by a taxi driver who forced her to wear a head scarf, raped her every day for 13 years, and sold four children he fathered with her.
“You took the wrong kid.”
British soldiers “warned not to wear their uniforms to work” after another suspected kidnapping attempt near Royal Air Force (RAF) base.
Two men who tried to kidnap an RAF serviceman while he was out jogging may have staged a dry run and undertaken reconnaissance around the base before the attempt, a witness has said.
RAF personnel at a base in Norfolk have been warned not to wear their uniform in public or travel on foot unaccompanied after one of their number narrowly avoided being kidnapped at knife-point, raising fears of a Lee Rigby style terrorist attack.
A Vatican Radio message on the fourth day of Pope Francis’ trip to Mexico, acknowledges the “escalating number of ‘desparacidos’” in the country but does not mention their manner of death, and the network of ovens operated in the state of Coahuila.
A New Jersey rabbi spent his second day on trial for allegedly charging undercover FBI agents to kidnap a man and force him to give his wife a religious divorce, called a “get.” Attorneys for Rabbi Mendel Epstein characterize him as a “defender of women’s rights.”
