kidnapping

A Chicago man involved in the Facebook live-streamed torture of a white man with special needs in 2017 has been busted again.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that Shelly Kittleson, an American freelance journalist, who was kidnapped in Baghdad, Iraq, by Iran-backed jihadist militia Kata’ib Hezbollah, had been released.

Locals dispute a claim by the Nigerian Army that its troops stormed a church and freed 31 hostages from the clutches of an armed gang.

ICE has arrested a thrice-deported illegal alien accused of kidnapping a child after the sanctuary state of New York freed him from jail.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested more illegal aliens convicted of crimes like attempted murder, kidnapping, and sexual assault. 

A pair of illegal aliens, as well as a third suspect, are accused of breaking into the residence of a man in Pitt County, North Carolina, before torturing and sexually assaulting him.

A man who is reportedly homeless is accused of trying to snatch a toddler from her mother at a supermarket in Bergamo, Italy, on Saturday.

President Donald Trump used the bully pulpit Monday to threaten Nancy Guthrie’s alleged kidnappers with the death penalty if they do not return the 84-year-old alive.

Two weeks after her mother’s apparent abduction, Savannah Guthrie is thinking about quitting the Today Show.

Tucson authorities are still without a suspect in the Nancy Guthrie disappearance case after a delivery driver was detained by law enforcement Tuesday night but released after several hours in custody.

Today Show co-host Savannah Guthrie released a video Monday afternoon pleading for help in locating her 84-year-old mother, Nancy Guthrie.

The people claiming to have kidnapped NBC News’s Today show host Savannah Guthrie’s elderly mother are reportedly demanding a $6 million ransom.

Nancy Guthrie’s suspected abductor may have disconnected her doorbell camera to see if it would trigger a response from law enforcement, a colleague of Savannah Guthrie’s has suggested.

According to TMZ founder Harvey Levin, the purported ransom note connected to the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie has a “second deadline” of Monday that is “far more consequential.”

Police say they have found blood inside the Tucson, Arizona, home of Nancy Guthrie, who has not been seen since about 9:45 p.m. Saturday night.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested an illegal alien gang member who was previously convicted of kidnapping, torturing, and murdering a man in New Mexico.

A convicted sex offender is facing more charges after being found with a missing child inside his truck in Florida, authorities said.

A father in Porter, Texas, used parental control features on his 15-year-old daughter’s cell phone to locate her after she went missing on Christmas Day. The young girl who disappeared while walking her dog was located by the father inside a pick-up truck in a secluded area, along with a suspected kidnapper who used a knife to force the girl into his vehicle.

Police in the southeastern Nigerian state of Imo are investigating a possible organ-harvesting ring after finding a hideous trove of mutilated corpses at a hotel.

The Catholic Diocese of Zaria in Nigeria’s Kaduna state said on Wednesday that a priest named Rev. Fr. Emmanuel Ezema was kidnapped from his church Tuesday night. 

Archbishop Henry Ndakuba on Friday announced that kidnapped Anglican priest Edwin Achi had been murdered by his abductors, a month after he was kidnapped from his home in the state of Kaduna and held for ransom.

Nigerian President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday declared a station of national emergency over a string of brutal attacks and kidnappings, including mass abductions of school children.

A group of House Democrats met with a previously deported illegal alien, accused of kidnapping and domestic violence, at a detention facility in San Diego, California.

Yet another kidnapping of young Nigerian women by jihadis of the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) was reported on Sunday. The wave of violence prompted the government of Nigeria’s Bauchi state to close all schools as a precaution, including both government and private institutions.

Nigerian President Bola Tinubu, who has denied the existence of persecution against Christians in his country, was obliged to postpone his trips to the G20 and AU-EU summits on Wednesday due to the ongoing crises of a mass schoolgirl kidnapping and a brutal jihadi attack on a church.

Nigerian police said on Monday that a swarm of armed “bandits” descended upon a girls’ boarding school in the state of Kebbi, killed one staff member, and abducted 25 of the students.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials said U.S. Representative Mike Quigley (D-IL) “deliberately misrepresented the facts” surrounding the arrest of a Colombian illegal alien arrested at a Chicago-area preschool. The illegal alien and her male friend driver fled from ICE officers and ran into the daycare.

An American missionary, tentatively identified by Christian groups as 50-year-old Kevin Rideout, was kidnapped from Niger’s capital city of Niamey by three unidentified gunmen on Tuesday.

A “very specific” anonymous tip led investigators on Saturday to human remains believed to be those of a Philadelphia beauty queen who went missing two weeks ago.

Nigerian Christians say their communities are under siege by Islamist “bandits” who are planning nothing less than genocide.

The Colombian Army announced on Sunday that 45 military officials were kidnapped during a security operation in a known drug trafficking route in the Department (state) of Cauca. The kidnappers were over 600 individuals from communities “in collusion” with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) Marxist terrorist group.

A group of as-yet unidentified gunmen ambushed a convoy in Nigeria’s southern state of Edo on Friday, killing eight security officers and kidnapping five Chinese nationals who worked for a local cement company. Meanwhile, the notorious Islamist terrorist gang called Boko Haram went on a rampage in northeastern Nigeria, slaughtering dozens of civilians in a methodical door-to-door village massacre.

The foreign ministry of the Iran-backed Houthi insurgency said on Wednesday that it has no intention of releasing at least 19 United Nations staffers who were detained in raids on Sunday. The Houthis claimed the U.N. personnel were spying for hostile powers, including the United States and Israel.

A horde of motorcycle-riding gunmen stormed the village of Gamdum Mallam in Nigeria’s Zamfara State on Saturday, shooting up the town and riding off with over a hundred captives, mostly women and children.

Police in Arkansas City, Kansas, responded to a reported sighting of a woman allegedly kidnapped from an Oklahoma casino and taken across state lines to the small Kansas town. Authorities discovered the woman after stopping a vehicle shortly after 1:00 a.m. on Sunday and arrested two men, police officers believe, who kidnapped and sexually assaulted the woman.

Police in Friendswood, Texas, have arrested a migrant Uber driver for “aggravated kidnapping” of a female passenger.