Kidnapping

Cops: Library Board Member Orchestrates Developmentally Disabled Adult Daughter’s Kidnapping to Teach Her Lesson About Safety
Kidnapping

A county library board member in Arkansas has been arrested for allegedly arranging for her 22-year-old developmentally-delayed daughter to be kidnapped as a “lesson on safety.” Arrest affidavits say Tammi Hamby  and three co-defendants were charged on Wednesday with conspiracy to commit kidnapping and endangering the welfare of an incompetent person, according to KHBS. Hamby’s …

Kidnapping
October 31, 2025

Florida Woman Tries to Kidnap 5-Year-Old Boy From Grandmother’s SUV

A Florida woman has been charged with false imprisonment of a young child and burglary after she allegedly tried to kidnap a 5-year-old boy from his grandmother’s vehicle. An immigration hold was also placed on Ivanna Nobile, 38, Broward County jail records show. According to WPLG, the grandmother told police she had stopped her SUV …

Kidnapping
October 7, 2025

Sex Offender Charged With Trying to Kidnap 11-Year-Old Girl

A convicted Arizona child sex offender was arrested last week for trying to kidnap an 11-year-old girl in Tolleson. The City of Tolleson said the most recent incident took place on September 29 when the suspect, later identified as 35-year-old Christopher Leon, grabbed the victim by the arm as she was walking home from school …

Kidnapping
October 6, 2025

Arkansas Men Accused of Kidnapping Teen, Forcing Him to Play ‘Russian Roulette’

Three Arkansas men — including an administrator at a state technical college, who has since been fired — have been accused of kidnapping an 18-year-old man and forcing him to play Russian roulette. Sherwood Police said they launched the investigation when the young victim and his mother came to the police station and reported that …

Kidnapping
October 3, 2025

Kidnapping Victim Escapes When ‘Nodding Off’ Kidnapper Makes Her Drive

Police in Pennsylvania are looking for a man accused of kidnapping a woman at gunpoint and threatening to slash her friend’s child’s throat. Shawn Prince, 29, faces charges of kidnapping, simple assault, terroristic, threats, and harassment, the Westmoreland District Attorney’s Office said in a statement. Scottdale Police responded to a request for a welfare check …

Kidnapping
August 28, 2025

Adult Predator Lures Missing Indigenous Girl, 12, via Snapchat: Police

Police say a 12-year-old Nebraska girl found safe last week had been kidnapped by a man who lured her to his apartment through Snapchat. According to 3 News Now, the 12-year-old disappeared from her South Omaha home last week after meeting a man online, identified as 30-year-old Devon Miller, of Council Bluffs. He’s now facing …

Child sex crimes
August 22, 2025

NC Man Charged With Kidnapping Iowa Teen, Bringing Her Back to North Carolina

A man accused of taking a missing Iowa teen to North Carolina last weekend now faces charges in two states. John Johnson, 25, was initially arrested in Reidsville, North Carolina, after authorities found the missing 15-year-old girl there, WHO reported. She was reunited with her family and Johnson was charged with sexual exploitation of a …

Kidnapping
July 18, 2025

SEE IT: Video Shows Violent Kidnapping Attempt in Broad Daylight

– Emma Marine, 18, was working in St. Augustine on June 29 when Theodore Tundidor, 31, allegedly tried to force her in his pickup truck
– Marine said the man previously came into her job to use the restroom and left
– Moments later, the man reportedly returned to use the bathroom before going behind the counter and throwing items
– Shortly thereafter, a 911 caller reported seeing the suspect violently dragging Marine in the parking lot
– Marine reportedly managed to fight off Tundidor, who fled but was apprehended after driving recklessly near Marineland