Four men in Alabama are in custody after they allegedly kidnapped and sexually abuse children in an underground bunker for more than a year. The men face charges, including rape, human trafficking, kidnapping, sodomy, and bestiality.
A transgender sex offender may walk free as prosecutors in Colorado are reportedly planning to drop the charges against him after the alleged kidnapping attempt of a child in 2024.
At least 30 people were killed over the weekend in clashes between Druze militia and Sunni Muslim Bedouin tribes in Syria.
A disturbing spree of kidnappings has struck women in the Alawite Muslim minority community in Syria since the fall of dictator Bashar Assad, reports revealed this week, including at least 33 known cases of brazen abductions in broad daylight.
French authorities have charged 25 suspects, including six minors, in connection with a string of brazen kidnappings and attempted abductions targeting prominent figures in France’s cryptocurrency industry.
President Donald Trump floated the idea of pardoning the men who were convicted of an alleged plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D), stating that the trial looked “like somewhat of a railroad job.”
India’s governing BJP party said on Thursday that its “Operation Sindhoor” counter-terrorist airstrikes on Pakistan “eliminated” Abdul Rauf Azhar, the operational commander of the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorist group and the mastermind behind American journalist Daniel Pearl’s kidnapping and beheading in 2002.
A third illegal has been charged with a vicious kidnapping where a husband was tied up while his wife and toddler were taken from the family’s home.
French police rescued the father of a wealthy cryptocurrency entrepreneur in a nighttime raid after he was taken hostage for ransom, the latest alleged criminal effort in France to extort people involved in the management of digital assets.
Two illegal aliens are accused of breaking into a Garner, North Carolina, woman’s home, demanding money from her husband, then kidnapping her and her baby girl.
A 16-year-old girl who went missing from Columbia, Missouri, in December was recently found in the home of a sex offender in Fort Collins, Colorado.
South African police on Tuesday rescued American pastor Josh Sullivan from the gang of armed men who kidnapped him last week.
The kidnapping epidemic that has plagued South Africa this decade may have hit a new criminal low when an American pastor was nabbed at gunpoint while he was preaching at a Baptist church in Motherwell, outside the coastal city of Gqeberha.
A transgender man from Mission Viejo, California, “who apparently cross-dresses on social media,” and was out on bond for attempted murder is now accused of kidnapping and assaulting an 89-year-old woman in Summerville, South Carolina.
A Pennsylvania man has been sentenced for faking his own mafia kidnapping to scam ransom money out of his victims.
Palestinians are reportedly outraged by the habit Hamas has developed of presenting its hostages with gift bags upon their release.
A commercial truck driver from Austin, Texas, is facing a sentence of life in prison following his conviction on a charge of murdering a sex-trafficking victim. The woman’s body was found in East Texas after she got in the driver’s truck in Dallas.
A frantic nine-hour search for a young Illinois girl, who was allegedly abducted by teenagers when they reportedly stole the vehicle she was in, ended in a miracle when the four-year-old was found abandoned in an alley but safe.
An illegal alien who was previously deported several times is accused of trying to kidnap a teenager in Elmore County, Alabama.
A migrant illegally present in the United States is in a Texas jail charged with kidnapping a Guatemalan migrant woman and holding her for ransom. He reportedly forced the woman to perform labor to work off her smuggling debt.
Democrats on Capitol Hill are begging President Joe Biden, set to leave office next month, to commute the death sentences of 40 federal inmates, which includes one of the Boston Marathon bombers, child killers, mass shooters, and those convicted for brutally murdering women.
A Somali native from Minnesota has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for his part in holding an American journalist hostage.
The CEO of a Canadian cryptocurrency firm was kidnapped and held for a $1 million ransom in downtown Toronto during rush hour this week. He was released unharmed after a $1,000,000 ransom was paid.
An illegal alien is accused of murdering 25-year-old Minelys “Mimi” Rodriguez-Ramirez, a native of Puerto Rico and fitness influencer, in Cornelia, Georgia.
The German Foreign Ministry on Tuesday recalled Ambassador to Iran Markus Potzel, then summoned Iran’s envoy in Berlin to lodge a formal protest against Iran’s execution of Jamshid Sharmahd, a German citizen who resided in California.
The man who attacked former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) husband, Paul Pelosi, was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday, without the possibility of parole.
French authorities were hunting Tuesday for a 17-day-old prematurely born baby boy who was abducted from the maternity ward of a Paris-region hospital, with his parents identified as the chief suspects.
The father of an allegedly kidnapped 14-year-old girl is in jail in Lonoke County, Arkansas, after a shooting that left the reported kidnapper dead. The father said he found the man with his daughter, and a confrontation broke out as he tried to rescue her.
A six-year-old boy who was abducted in 1951 was found alive more than 70 years later and reunited with his family, who never gave up hope.
Two Honduran illegal migrants living in New Mexico have been charged for allegedly conspiring to kidnap other migrants to extort their families for ransom, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California said Monday.
A Chicago convicted rapist allegedly abducted a nurse from a hospital parking lot at knifepoint and robbed her of her jewelry and money.
An illegal alien is accused of kidnapping a 13-year-old girl and raping her at knifepoint in Kenner, Louisiana.
Mexican authorities are insinuating that the U.S. government played a role in the alleged kidnapping of a top drug lord who was flown north of the border by his rivals and turned over to authorities. The allegations are part of an ongoing federal kidnapping and treason investigation undertaken by Mexican authorities following the arrest of Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, one of the supreme leaders of the Sinaloa Cartel.
A convicted pedophile who kidnapped and sexually assaulted his friend’s five-year-old daughter could be released from prison due to a recent California law change, despite being sentenced to 350 years in jail.
A New York City homeless woman allegedly tried to abduct two toddlers from a Manhattan playground in broad daylight, police saying she has a long criminal record full of assaults.
A Mexican “witch” who reportedly had cartel ties was killed while trying to kidnap a baby to use him as a sacrifice to the patron “saint” of cartels.
A girl is safe thanks to police officers in Fort Worth, Texas, who took swift action when she was allegedly kidnapped from a home early Friday.
The New York Police Department (NYPD) is offering a $10,000 reward for the “animal” who reportedly tied up two 13-year-olds and sexually assaulted one of them.
An illegal alien has been caught in Alleghany County, Virginia, after allegedly abducting an underage girl from Louisiana, police revealed.
Mexican state authorities near Cancun, Quintana Roo, rescued a group of 17 women who were being exploited and sexually trafficked in bars. The women had been lured to the tourist hotspot with promises of jobs at high-end hotels only to be kidnapped and trafficked at local clubs.
