Alabama deputies tracked a missing woman down to a home in downtown Anniston Monday night and found her in a closet, bound with tape. Betty Cobb, 75, was last seen on Monday at her home in rural Calhoun County. Her keys and phone were found on her bed, and her glasses and some groceries were …
Sheriff’s deputies chased a suspect who had taken two women hostage through three Florida counties Saturday night, ending in a crash and a shootout that left the suspect dead. The Brevard County Sheriff’s Office identified the suspect as 42-year-old Curtis Kimbrough, who they said “had a lengthy felony record” and had been recently released from …
Residents of a Houston neighborhood leapt into action Tuesday to rescue an 11-year-old boy after a man allegedly shoved him into his car and tried to sexually assault him. Two neighbors heard the boy screaming and grabbed Miguel Angel Cordero Ramirez, 30, holding him down until police could arrive. Ramirez has been charged with aggravated …
A Florida woman recognized a potential kidnapping situation on a FishHawk street on Sunday and intervened, leading to the arrest of a 37-year-old man. The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said David Daniels approached two elementary school children in the town’s park square and told them he was going to supervise their walk home. As they …
A Georgia man has been charged with kidnapping a woman and ramming three police cruisers while trying to escape police. Gwinnett County police say they were called at about 9 p.m. on Friday by a man who was concerned about his girlfriend, who had not returned from an errand. The man told police he received …
A Texas man has been arrested after a woman escaped from a home in Bexar County and told police he had kidnapped her and beaten her for several days. Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar said the 45-year-old woman fled the home early Saturday and ran to a neighbor’s home, where she called for help, KSAT …
Florida police arrested a man for kidnapping early Saturday morning after his alleged victim caused him to crash the car he was driving. Tallahassee Police responded to a single-car crash just before 4:30 a.m., WCTV reported. Police said the victim was taken to a hospital with serious injuries, while the suspect was medically cleared and …
An alert Pennsylvania bank employee helped rescue a kidnapped woman on Wednesay when her captor brought her in to apply for a loan and she asked for a “help loan.” The employee set off the bank’s silent alarm, usually used for a robbery, and police arrived and arrested 36-year-old Wilson Medina-Garcia, charging him with kidnapping, …
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol tracked them down by the active GPS in the rental car they were driving.
Police in Eastlake, Ohio, are searching for a 20-year-old pregnant woman who may have been taken in a “violent abduction.” WEWS reported that police took a report about the apparent abduction of Isabella Scaletta at about 12:30 p.m. on Friday. “Information obtained from the reporting party indicated that the victim was a possible target of …
A Tennessee man has been jailed on kidnapping and evading arrest charges after a woman slipped a note to a Kentucky Fried Chicken employee begging for help, and that employee called police. Memphis police officers responded to the restaurant, and the employee gave them a description of the woman and man who was with her. …
A Kansas City woman is in critical condition after she was held prisoner and tortured by a man she met on a dating app. Charging documents say the unidentified 31-year-old woman met James Larson Jr, 39, last week, and was staying at the home he shared with his father in Lathrop, Missouri. Everything was fine, …
