Chicago police are looking for a man who offered a mother cash for her 5-year-old daughter and then tried to snatch the girl by the hair. Police said the incident took place just before noon on Thursday on West Fullerton Avenue on the city’s northwest side, WLS reports. The mother and the girl got away …
Oakland police in California are asking for help identifying a man seen in surveillance footage trying to kidnap a toddler and then assaulting the child’s mother. An “unknown good Samaritan” came to the aid of the mother, prompting the assailant to flee. The mother and the 2-year-old were at the transit bus platform at High …
A man seen on surveillance video trying to kidnap a 5-year-old boy in Queens was with his father at the time. The New York Post reported that James McGonagle, 24, was the suspect who jumped out of his car as Dolores Diaz and her family were walking by Thursday night. In the terrifying footage, McGonagle …
A Kentucky woman was arrested this month for allegedly trying to abduct a 14-year-old girl as she walked to a friend’s house. According to WAVE, the girl told police that Kimberly Phelps, 50, jumped out of a wooded area, grabbed her from behind, and covered her mouth before trying to drag her away. The girl …
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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 …
Police in Elkhart, Indiana, are looking for a man driving a late model GMC Safari van who allegedly tried to kidnap two children while their mother was washing her car at a car wash, WSBT reported. The man was described as between 60- and 70-years-old with a gray beard and pock marks on his face. …
A California woman was recently arrested for allegedly masquerading as a social worker in an attempt to kidnap a 1-week-old baby from their mother on Friday. Though police haven’t publicly identified the 38-year-old suspect in custody, they alleged she approached the mother at her Santa Ana home and claimed she was a social worker named …
California authorities released a new sketch of a man accused of trying to kidnap a girl as she walked to school on Thursday morning. ABC reports that according to the Los Angeles Police Department, the incident took place at around 7:45 a.m., off of the 1700 block of Vineyard Avenue in Los Angeles. A young girl …
An Arizona girl may have thwarted a kidnapping last week by using a “code word” made precisely by her family for such dire situations, according to authorities. Officials with the Pinal County Sheriff’s Department said they were alerted Wednesday afternoon to “an attempted luring” in the North Pecan Creek neighborhood of San Tan Valley, near …
An quick thinking Arizona mom saved her child from a reported would-be kidnapper who tried to nab her child while she getting into her car. ABC15 reports that on Dec. 13, a woman was getting into to her car with her child, off of Gilbert Road and Southern Avenue, when she spotted a man inside her …
A quick-thinking Ohio man is being applauded for thwarting an alleged kidnapping. FOX 19 reports that surveillance video captured the suspect, later identified as Jessie Woodard Jr. (pictured right), pulling an 11-year-old girl by the arm down a road in Golf Manor on Saturday. That’s when Nazier Elahee (pictured left) said he noticed something that prompted him to take …
Police have arrested a convicted sex offender after he allegedly tried to snatch a 4-year-old boy off his bike at an Illinois park, as reported by Northwest Herald. Woodstock police said that Kevin Sorensen, 39, pulled the child off his bike, picked him up, and tried to run off on Friday. Witnesses told WLS that yells from the boy …
