A Virginia woman was arrested in North Carolina on Sunday after she allegedly stole an SUV with five children inside following multi-vehicle collision. The Currituck County Sheriff’s Office said that several vehicles were involved in the crash shortly after 12:30 p.m. Grandy. The driver of a Chevrolet Suburban witnessed the accident and stopped to assist. …
A 64-year-old woman in Connecticut was abducted Saturday night by two men who assaulted her, robbed her, and drove her nearly 25 miles away in her own car before setting her free. The victim’s car was later found on fire at a business in Berlin, not far from where she’d been released. WTNH said the …
A dead body found Saturday near the shoreline of a river in Kentucky is believed to be a kidnapping victim who had been held for ransom earlier this week, WLKY-TV reports. Authorities were alerted to the body shortly before 5 p.m. Saturday near a boat ramp at Shawnee Park in Louisville, Kentucky. As of early Sunday …
Police said a Kentucky man who has not been seen or heard from since Tuesday was kidnapped and is being held for ransom. During a press conference on Thursday, Louisville Metro police Sergeant Matt Kennington said Jermaine Sprewer’s family contacted authorities after receiving several FaceTime calls from the suspects in which they could see Sprewer, …
An 11-year-old Washington state girl helped thwart the attempted kidnapping of her toddler sister at a Yakima park on Tuesday. Yakima police said that a homeless woman snatched the 3-year-old girl in Miller Park shortly before 9 p.m. and ran and that the little girl’s sister took off after her. The 11-year-old caught up with …
A Portland firefighter is facing kidnapping charges after he and two accomplices allegedly kidnapped a man he learned had burglarized his marijuana dispensary in order to teach him a lesson. Douglas L. Bourland, 46, is a 14-year veteran of Portland Fire & Rescue, the Oregonian reported, but was on leave from his job at the …
A man and a woman in Massachusetts have been arrested for kidnapping a four-day-old baby girl Saturday morning in Worcester. The mother reported that a woman she’d met on Facebook and been in frequent communication with — identified as Kassidy Lauziere-Cuevas, 19 — picked her and the baby up Saturday morning for coffee shortly before …
Colorado Springs Police asked for help on Wednesday with an investigation of a kidnapping of a woman that took place Sunday evening. KRDO said the incident happened at the Rodeway Inn on Ore Mill Road, near Interstate 24 on the city’s west side. The victim was seen “forced into the vehicle against her will by …
Six Missouri residents have been indicted in the kidnapping and murder of another Missouri man whose body was found a year ago after a violent standoff with one of the suspects. Acting on a tip that there was a body in the woods near a house outside Joplin, Newton County deputies and Joplin police showed …
A Louisiana man pleaded guilty on Monday, years after devising a kidnap-for-hire plot targeting his estranged wife that ended with his two hitmen drowning. According to The Advocate, Lawrence Handley, 53, pleaded guilty to second-degree kidnapping and attempted second-degree kidnapping. Handley was under the influence of methamphetamine and cocaine in 2017 when he paid Sylvester …
Authorities have located a 15-year-old Texas girl at the Florida home of a felon, where the suspect was keeping a semi-automatic weapon. According to Fox News, the unidentified teen girl from Dilley, Texas, told her parents she was going to an all-inclusive church retreat in Florida earlier this month. When her parents were unable to …
Authorities in Utah are investigating the death of a 4-year-old boy who was found dead in his home hours after being reported missing. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Kache Wallis, 4, was reported missing on Sunday morning when he was missing from his bed at his home in Hurricane City. Later the same day, after investigators …
