Police: Man Faked His Kidnapping to Avoid Paying a $50,000 Super Bowl Bet
Police in New York claim that a man arranged his own kidnapping as a means to avoid paying off on a $50,000 Super Bowl bet.

Police in New York claim that a man arranged his own kidnapping as a means to avoid paying off on a $50,000 Super Bowl bet.
After more than 45 years, James Alan Neal has been arrested for the alleged murder of 11-year-old Linda O’Keefe in July 1973 in California.
Italian authorities are investigating claims of a 32-year-old Belgian woman who says she was kidnapped by six migrants and forced into sexual slavery for two months.
South Carolina police now have an illegal immigrant in custody who reportedly fled to Florida to avoid prosecution on charges relating to domestic violence, assault, child neglect, and kidnapping. Police returned the man to South Carolina to face charges after police in Kissimmee, Florida arrested him in December.
An Ohio man with multiple facial tattoos racked up his 54th arrest this Tuesday after police charged him with allegedly kidnapping a woman and holding her for ransom.
An 11-year-old girl from Arizona stopped a would-be kidnapper in his tracks Wednesday after she demanded he give her a “code word,” police said.
A Kansas mother said a stranger allegedly tried to kidnap her newborn baby inside a Shawnee, Kansas, Target store, a report says.
The family of a 43-year-old African billionaire offered $330,000 in return for information on his whereabouts on Monday after gunmen kidnapped him from a luxury hotel in Dar es Salaam, the capital of Tanzania.
A Turkish newspaper aligned with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday claimed it has identified the 15 members of the team allegedly sent from Saudi Arabia to kidnap or kill missing journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who disappeared last week after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.
A Domino’s pizza delivery driver in Wisconsin who spotted a woman mouthing the words “help me” at a delivery address is being hailed a hero for alerting the police to an alleged kidnapping.
A missionary priest was kidnapped in Niger this week by armed gunmen presumed to be jihadists from neighboring Burkina Faso.
A K9 police dog in Florida scored major points with his handler Monday after he heroically took down a man accused of kidnapping an infant, according to a video from a police officer’s body camera.
Court filings in the case of Muslim extremist Siraj Wahhaj and four accomplices, arrested Friday at a squalid New Mexico compound where 11 starving children were being trained to attack schools with firearms, reveal the rescued children have identified the remains of a child recovered from the site as the body of Wahhaj’s three-year-old son Abdul-Ghani Wahhaj.
Horrifying details emerged on Wednesday in the case of Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, the son of an imam linked to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, who was arrested in New Mexico on charges of keeping 11 starving children in a filthy compound. According to court documents filed by prosecutors, Wahhaj was training the children to carry out school shootings.
Police charged a woman with murder on Saturday for allegedly kidnapping a six-month-old boy, setting him on fire, and leaving him to die by railroad tracks in Louisiana.
Kellen Winslow II, finds himself facing a new charge in addition to the multiple charges of rape and kidnapping of older women that he currently faces. Now, the former NFL player is accused of raping an unconscious 17-year-old in 2003.
Authorities have issued an AMBER Alert for a seven month old girl reportedly abducted by an armed sex offender at a gas station in Virginia early Monday morning, police said.
A previously deported illegal alien allegedly broke into a home in Raleigh, North Carolina, kidnapped a child, and sexually assaulted her.
CAIRO — A mother who in a BBC report that angered Egyptian authorities accused the police of torturing her daughter and being behind her disappearance has been arrested.
Two kidnappers, the sons of Mexican “high rollers” who were themselves kidnapped by the Mexican cartel five years earlier, sequestered the son of a wealthy dancing horses owner in Colorado. During sentencing, the lawyer for one of the brothers speculated they committed the crime because ICE agents had mistreated them. The other brother blamed his criminal behavior on drug abuse and loyalty to his sibling.
An analytics manager for Exmo Bitcoin exchange was kidnapped in Kiev when he left his office this week, according to a report.
A convicted sex offender who allegedly kidnapped a woman inside an Oregon store has been arrested after the woman mouthed “help me” to several onlookers.
A Mexican man convicted of sexual assault and other charges who was in the U.S. illegally had been deported from the U.S. 20 times, court documents show.
Officials singled out six members of Mexico’s Navy as having been part of a group that carried ransom kidnappings targeting wealthy businessmen. The kidnappers operated in military uniform and in their military issued vehicle when they followed and took a businessman who was driving around Mexico City.
A kidnapping victim escaped out of the trunk of her alleged captor’s car at an Alabama gas station Monday night, and police took the suspect into custody Tuesday, authorities said.
A foreign national in the United States on a tourist visa has been charged with attempted kidnapping after allegedly trying to kidnap and murder a baby.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is advising anyone who receives a call from a woman screaming for help to hang up, as the call is part of a decades-old kidnapping scam.
A West Virginia woman succumbed to the injuries she suffered after her boyfriend allegedly set her on fire last month.
A female Ayurveda doctor was allegedly abducted and tortured for 22 days at a Hindu reeducation center last month after marrying a Christian man in Kerala, India.
LONDON (AP) — British police have arrested the brother of a Polish man suspected of kidnaping a British model and threatening to sell her on the dark web.