Under federal and state law, kidnapping is commonly defined as taking or confining a person against their will by force, violence or fraud.
CHINO HILLS, Calif. (AP) — A man accused of torturing, raping and disfiguring a woman who was held captive in his Southern California home for six months pleaded not guilty to 10 charges, prosecutors said Tuesday. Peter McGuire, 59, of Chino Hills entered pleas Monday to charges including kidnapping, mayhem and sodomy by use of […] More
June 14, 2022
Elizabeth Smart was abducted from her family's home in Salt Lake City on June 5, 2002. She was sexually abused for nine months until her rescue in Sandy in March 2003. More
June 6, 2022
Authorities arrested Kirby Calderwood, 32, in Ogden, Utah and charged him with first-degree murder, second-degree murder, kidnapping and tampering with physical evidence. Anesha “Duffy” Murnane, 38, of Homer, Alaska went missing in 2019. More
May 10, 2022
Police released a video showing the man walking down the sidewalk holding the baby carrier covered by a white blanket. More
April 26, 2022
Sherri Papini pleaded guilty to faking her own kidnapping and lying to the FBI about it. More
April 18, 2022
Sherri Papini, California woman charged with faking her 2016 kidnapping, accepted a plea bargain with prosecutors and acknowledged she made up the story. More
April 12, 2022
Colorado man Shane Hammond convicted of kidnapping a 12-year-old girl who was walking home from school. More
April 12, 2022
Nevada judge rules that Troy Driver, accused of kidnapping and killing 18-year-old Naomi Irion, will remain in jail without bail. More
April 8, 2022
A jury on acquitted two men of all charges in a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer but couldn't reach verdicts against the two alleged leaders. More
April 8, 2022
The third day of deliberations ended Wednesday without a verdict in a trial that centers on a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. More
April 6, 2022
Troy Driver, Nevada man accused of kidnapping and killing 18-year-old Naomi Irion shot her and buried her body in a remote high-desert area, according to a new criminal complaint. More
April 5, 2022
A pretrial hearing has been postponed until next month for a rural Nevada man accused of kidnapping and killing Naomi Irion. More
April 5, 2022
Jurors asked for a definition of “weapon” Monday but otherwise gave no indication of the progress of their work. More
April 5, 2022
The jury picked a leader late Friday afternoon, following hours of closing arguments from lawyers, then said it would start discussing the case after the weekend. More
April 4, 2022
Troy Driver booked on charges of murder with use of a deadly weapon, robbery, burglary and destruction of evidence. He's been held on $750,000 bail at the Lyon County Jail since March 25 after his arrest on a charge of kidnapping Naomi Irion. More
April 1, 2022
A prosecutor urged jurors Friday to convict four men in a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. More
April 1, 2022
Defense attorneys rested their case after one of four men charged with plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer repeatedly said "absolutely not" when asked if he had agreed to abduct her before the 2020 election. More
March 31, 2022
Authorities discovered the remains of 18-year-old kidnapped Nevada woman Naomi Irion. 41-year-old Troy Driver was charged earlier with first-degree kidnapping. More
March 30, 2022
A man accused of leading a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was "antigovernment" and believed officials were out to "line their own pockets," his longtime companion testified Wednesday before prosecutors rested their case. More
March 30, 2022
Sheriff’s Detective Erik Kusmerz has said deputies and the FBI haven’t found Irion's cellphone or detected a signal it since shortly after they believe she was abducted. More
March 29, 2022
Two men described as leaders of a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer were thrilled as they watched videos of powerful explosives, a few hours before driving north to scout her vacation home, an FBI agent testified Monday. More
March 28, 2022
Nevada police took a suspect into custody in the kidnapping of 18-year-old Naomi Irion. More
March 25, 2022
Kaleb Franks, who pleaded guilty in plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, testified he joined the conspiracy hoping he would be killed in a shootout with police. More
March 24, 2022
Ty Garbin, who pleaded guilty to planning a kidnapping of Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, told jurors he and allies wanted to attack before 2020 election to prevent Biden from winning. More
March 23, 2022
“He circled around the parking lot, maybe to make sure there were no witnesses. He came up behind the car and forced his way into the driver’s side of the car.” More
March 22, 2022
Dan Chappel, leader of plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, asked "when's the lynching?" after state Supreme Court struck down law she repeatedly used to impose restrictions during COVID-19. More
March 21, 2022
Matthew Muller, a Harvard-trained attorney and ex-Marine, concocted a plan so elaborate and bizarre that at first police accused the couple of lying. More
March 21, 2022
Four men are standing trial in Michigan on charges they plotted to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. More
March 17, 2022
The trial was suspended because the virus had struck a key participant in the case. More
March 16, 2022
Heather Adkins is accused of abandoning her 5-year-old, non-verbal son on a dark road in the rain. From jail, she told reporters she left the child to save him from herself. More
March 14, 2022
