A North Carolina man abducted his former girlfriend and their 1-month old baby at gunpoint early Monday morning, releasing them hours later before he was arrested in another county. Wani Thomas, 24, broke into Jasmine Livermore’s mother’s home and forced her and baby Nathaniel Thomas into his car and sped off into the night, Fayetteville …
A 14-year-old girl was drugged and kidnapped from a California strip mall earlier this week, but her abductors didn’t take her phone from her. “Somebody help me,” she messaged her friends over Snapchat, KPIX reported. “I’m in a random man’s car … I am not in Santa Cruz. Where am I?” Her digital savvy friends …
A Massachusetts couple spotted a car Wednesday night highlighted in an AMBER Alert and gave chase, providing police with the information they needed to eventually stop the car and free an 11-year-old girl who had been grabbed while walking home from school hours earlier. Benny Correa and Amanda Disley spotted the blue Honda Civic with …
A female Uber driver jumped from her moving vehicle late Friday night to escape an armed passenger who had ordered her to drive him into the desert, the Grand Junction, Colorado, Police Department reported. Her white Toyota C-HR crashed into a fence after she jumped out, but by the time police arrived, the male passenger …
An Iowa man is behind bars after police say they found a victim tied up in his trunk. ABC9 reports that a call regarding a missing person was reported to the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office on Friday. Officers were dispatched to Wadena, Iowa, at around 12:15 p.m., where they spotted the victim’s car in a …
It’s been a year since Jayme Closs escaped a Wisconsin killer who shot her parents before abducting her. The brave teen continues to heal and thrive after being held captive for months, in a remote house of horrors. “She’s doing what every 14-year-old kid is doing and that’s just being a kid,” Barron County Sheriff …
A Missouri woman who kept her young son hidden in an attic was given probation on Wednesday for a child abduction conviction. Lake News Online reports that Aubrey Ferguson will serve 5 years of supervised probation after taking her son, 6-year-son, Braedence Jones, and hiding him from his father for five months. Camden County Circuit …
A Texas father who lost his fiance, Heidi Broussard, after her supposed best friend abducted her and her baby, says that there is “no way” the suspect could have acted alone, ABC reports. “I don’t know what happened. Heidi is way stronger than Magen. There has to be a second person. There is no way …
A Colorado woman was arrested late last month for allegedly planning to kidnap the son she lost custody of with the help of a right-wing fringe group. Local police and the FBI reportedly arrested Cynthia Abcug, 30, in Montana on December 30. Citing an affidavit, the Daily Beast reported that Abcug planned to take her …
Footage posted to social media apparently shows a man snatch a sleeping woman off a New York City subway train on Sunday morning. The New York Post reported that the video showed Sonny Alloway, 48, carrying a woman off the 6 train in the Bronx at around 2:35 a.m. He was reportedly filmed touching the …
UPDATE: KSNV reported that suspect Darnell Rodgers, 23, was arrested Thursday on kidnapping and domestic battery charges in connection with a filmed incident which occurred on New Year’s Day. ORIGINAL Story: Authorities in Nevada are seeking leads after receiving surveillance footage which apparently shows a man violently kidnapping a woman on New Year’s Day. According …
Brookside police released dramatic bodycam footage of the capture and arrest of a California man accused of abducting an Alabama woman. The Brookside Police Department reports that Sean E. Sanders has been officially charged with numerous felonies following his arrest on Sunday. His charges include: Kidnapping 1st degree Attempted murder of a police officer Attempted …
