A North Carolina mother is alive this weekend after a terrifying ordeal earlier this week when her ex-boyfriend kidnapped her, drove her to Virginia, shot her in the face, and then killed himself. Crystal Lashawn Clay, 34, was taken from her Burlington home early Tuesday morning by Renaldo Lemar Tate, 34, the Carroll County, Virginia, …
California police announced Wednesday that they arrested a man who allegedly tried to abduct a 6-year-old girl from her blind father last month. Elijah Lopez, 24, was arrested on September 2 in San Diego. Los Angeles police told reporters that they believe Lopez (pictured) uses the local rail system to target young victims. On August …
An Arizona man has been charged with kidnapping after he tried to walk out of a Flagstaff grocery store pushing a cart with another customer’s baby inside, according to Flagstaff police. Jeffery Roholt, 59, told police he thought the cart was his when he finished paying for his two small bags of groceries at a …
A 1-year-old Georgia boy is back in his mother’s arms after he was kidnapped at gunpoint on Saturday and driven across the metropolitan Atlanta area before Georgia state troopers stopped the vehicle. The boy, Mateo Alejandro Montufar-Barrera, was disguised as a baby girl but unharmed and reunited with his mother, Leslie Bamaca, at the Chamblee …
Houston police are looking for a suspect who stole a car with a 2-year-old girl sleeping in the back seat, KTRK reports. The car was running and likely unlocked, parked in front of the Speed Queen Laundry in the shopping center at Mi Tienda while the mother was inside. “She was sleeping in the car. …
A person of interest in the disappearance of missing mom, Leila Cavett, is behind bars for lying to the FBI, but new information in a recently-released federal arrest warrant details an additional charge. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Cavett, 21, may have left Georgia with her toddler son “abruptly” at night and drove to Florida for …
A judge ruled Thursday that there’s enough evidence to proceed to trial in the case of a Colorado woman accused of plotting to kidnap her son from foster care with the help of a far-right fringe group, according to KUSA. Cynthia Abcug, 50, was arrested in Montana on at the end of December 2019 after …
Authorities announced Wednesday the Alabama couple accused of abducting and murdering Kamille McKinney was indicted on federal kidnapping charges. The Northern District of Alabama U.S. Attorney’s Office said indictments filed separately in U.S. District Court charged Patrick Stallworth, 40, and Derick Brown, 29, with kidnapping and conspiracy to kidnap a minor victim. Federal authorities said …
A Georgia woman was kidnapped early Monday morning and left dead 20 miles away in Alabama, while the suspects led police on an 80 mile chase across eastern Alabama until they crashed north of Montgomery. Tameka Skinner, 39, was found shot to death near Seale, Alabama, at about 11:30 a.m., the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer reported, some …
A Pennsylvania Amish woman missing for nearly a month was abducted, Lancaster County prosecutors said Saturday, and a man has been arrested and charged with kidnapping and false imprisonment. But the whereabouts of Linda Stoltztfoos, 18, remain unknown, although investigators believe she “was harmed following her abduction,” the Lancaster County district attorney’s office said, according …
A New York man is facing various criminal charges for allegedly attempting to abduct a 7-year-old girl from her home Monday. Pete Haughton, 32, was accused of breaking into a Queens residence and dragging a girl out of her bunk bed. The child’s mother told WCBS that the suspect tapped her daughter’s belly and told …
A New Hampshire man allegedly kidnapped and left naked and tied to a tree Friday night reportedly owned his assailant $500, Manchester police said in court documents, the Union Leader reported Monday. Ronny “Spanish Jay” Betances, 37, has been charged with kidnapping, robbery, criminal threatening with a deadly weapon, and two counts of simple assault …
