Kidnapping

Details about what they allegedly did could not be released because of “the nature of the allegations” and because court records are sealed, CBI said. More

July 9, 2021

Dallas police said late Wednesday that Darriynn Brown, 18, will face the new charge for the death of Cash Gernon. More

June 10, 2021

DENVER (Scripps News Denver) – The man Longmont police named as a suspect nearly three years ago in the March 2018 disappearance of Rita Gutierrez-Garcia has been charged with her kidnapping and murder, according to court documents. Juan Jose Figueroa, 32, faces counts of first-degree murder after deliberation, felony murder and second-degree kidnapping in connection with the […] More

June 7, 2021

Cristhian Bahena Rivera was found guilty of abducting and murdering University of Iowa student Mollie Tibbetts. More

May 28, 2021

The girl escaped with minor scratches and some mental trauma. More

May 20, 2021

Video evidence, DNA and a partial confession will all be presented in the prosecution's case against Cristhian Bahena Rivera. More

May 19, 2021

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Two more people have been indicted by a grand jury in Hennepin County in the kidnapping and slaying of a real estate agent in 2019. Twenty-nine-year-old Elsa Segura, of Fridley, and 36-year-old Lyndon Wiggins were indicted Thursday on four counts of aiding and abetting the crimes of first-degree murder, attempted second-degree murder, […] More

May 14, 2021

LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — Authorities strongly believe that remains found a day earlier in a grave along railroad tracks in southern Pennsylvania are those of a young Amish woman who disappeared last summer, a county prosecutor said Thursday. Lancaster County District Attorney Heather Adams told a news conference that a coroner has not made a […] More

April 23, 2021

Justin Arthur-Ray Davis allegedly stalked the woman for over a month after quitting their mutual workplace. More

April 6, 2021

A Michigan judge on Monday ordered three men to stand trial in a plot to kidnap Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer over her coronavirus restrictions. Jackson County District Court Judge Michael Klaeren ruled there was enough evidence and bound over Paul Bellar, Joe Morrison and Pete Musico to circuit court to stand trial. “The defendants […] More

March 29, 2021

ARROYO GRANDE, Calif. (AP) — The latest of many searches in the nearly 25-year mystery of the disappearance of California college student Kristin Smart ended Tuesday with no comment from authorities on whether it yielded any results.   The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office tweeted that service of a search warrant was concluded at the Arroyo […] More

March 17, 2021

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A man suspected of killing three adults and a child and abducting his baby daughter had pulled out a gun and opened fire following a heated argument at an Indianapolis home, police said Monday. The baby’s mother was also wounded in Saturday night’s shootings. The 6-month-old girl was later found unharmed. Malik […] More

March 15, 2021

DALLAS (AP) — A Dallas police officer was arrested Thursday on two counts of capital murder, more than a year and a half after a man told investigators that he kidnapped and killed two people at the officer’s instruction in 2017, authorities said. Bryan Riser, a 13-year veteran of the force, was arrested Thursday morning […] More

March 4, 2021

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A trial for five men accused of planning to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has been postponed for seven months to give defense lawyers more time to receive and analyze evidence, a federal judge said Wednesday. The March 23 trial has been moved to Oct. 12 in federal court in […] More

February 11, 2021

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee police officer was charged with kidnapping a man in a squad car while on duty and fatally shooting him, authorities said. Patric Ferguson, a Memphis police officer since 2018, was charged in the death of Robert Howard, 30, of Memphis. Howard was reported missing Wednesday, Memphis police said in […] More

January 11, 2021

LANCASTER, Pa. (AP) — A man charged previously with having kidnapped a young Amish woman who disappeared in Pennsylvania last summer has now been charged with killing her. Lancaster County District Attorney Heather Adams announced Monday that Justo Smoker, 34, of Paradise, was charged with criminal homicide in the case of Linda Stoltzfoos, 18, who […] More

December 23, 2020

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Police in Stockholm are investigating a woman in her 70s suspected of having kept her son locked up — reportedly for 28 years — in an apartment south of the Swedish capital, investigators said Tuesday. Prosecutor Emma Olsson, who heads the preliminary investigation, said the woman who was held on suspicion of […] More

December 2, 2020

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A man stole a car that had been left running with a baby inside it, picked up a friend and abandoned the child on a porch about 10 miles (16 kilometers) away, police said. The driver, Angel Marie Jasso, 34, and the friend, Roddy Mike Montes, 20, were arrested on […] More

November 6, 2020

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mexican authorities have found the body of a Los Angeles firefighter who vanished in August and was shot during a botched kidnapping, it was announced Wednesday. There was a “full identification” of Francisco Aguilar, whose cremated skeletal remains were found in an uninhabited area on Oct. 23, said Hiram Sánchez, Baja […] More

November 5, 2020

Five Michigan men are accused of plotting to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer because of her measures to control the spread of COVID-19. More

October 19, 2020

By ED WHITE Associated Press DETROIT (AP) — Agents foiled a stunning plot to kidnap Michigan Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, authorities said Thursday in announcing charges in an alleged scheme that involved months of planning and even rehearsals to snatch Whitmer at her vacation home. Six men were charged in federal court, while seven others […] More

October 8, 2020

By ANDREW DALTON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A 39-year-old woman was charged Tuesday in what authorities say was an attempted kidnapping of the 9-month-old granddaughter of Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Montana from his Southern California home. Sodsai Predpring Dalzell of Los Angeles pleaded not guilty in LA County court to felony counts […] More

September 30, 2020

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hall of Fame quarterback Joe Montana and his wife confronted a home intruder who attempted to kidnap their 9-month-old grandchild over the weekend, law enforcement officials confirmed on Sunday. According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, Montana told deputies that his grandchild was sleeping in a playpen on Saturday when […] More

September 29, 2020

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A South Carolina man who stalked a 26-year-old WWE star for years and spent eight months planning to kidnap her was arrested Sunday after breaking into her home near Tampa, sheriff’s officials said. Phillip A. Thomas II, 24, of Cordesville, South Carolina, was arrested early Sunday for attempting to carry out […] More

August 17, 2020

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A San Diego man was in police custody Tuesday, June 16, 2020, and his twin toddlers were in the hospital after he drove off a cliff with them in his car in what police say was a suicide attempt.   Robert Brians was booked Monday on suspicion of two counts of […] More

June 24, 2020

The last time Mackenzie Lueck was seen alive was at the Salt Lake City airport on June 17, 2019. The University of Utah student had just returned from a trip to California where she had attended her grandmother’s funeral. She’d sent her mother a text message that said, “Landed and love you Mama.” From the […] More

June 18, 2020

By AMY FORLITI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A man convicted of kidnapping a Wisconsin girl and killing her parents told police after his arrest that he never thought Jayme Closs would escape because she was petrified, and that after holding her captive for two weeks, he believed he’d get away with his crimes, according […] More

December 26, 2019

On Thursday, Court TV’s Vinnie Politan, host of “Closing Arguments with Vinnie Politan,” sat down for an exclusive interview with Jeffery Leving, the attorney for Elian Gonzalez’s father. Elian skyrocketed to the international spotlight in 1999, after he became the center of an immigration and custody battle between the United States and Cuba. The then-five-year-old […] More

December 18, 2019

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The man who kidnapped Wisconsin teen Jayme Closs and killed her parents got into a fight in a New Mexico prison with an inmate who asked about the case, showing how word of his crimes has spread and raising questions about whether moving him to an out-of-state lockup accomplished anything. A […] More

October 31, 2019

BARRON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin girl whose parents were fatally shot before she was kidnapped and held captive for 88 days before escaping from her abductor said she’s feeling stronger every day and is thankful for the kindness and concern expressed to her from people all over the country in the year after the […] More

October 14, 2019