BALLSTON SPA, N.Y.—A man was sentenced Wednesday to 47 years to life in prison for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl who went missing from a state park in upstate New York last year. Craig N. Ross Jr. pleaded guilty in February to taking the girl in September from a campground at Moreau Lake […]
Four people were arrested and charged with murder and kidnapping over the weekend in connection with the disappearances of two Oklahoma women. Veronica Butler, 27; and Jilian Kelley, 39, of Hugoton, Kansas, were driving through the Oklahoma panhandle to pick up Butler’s children for a March 30 birthday party in Kansas but never showed up. Their vehicle […]
An American social media influencer has been kidnapped and held hostage for a $600,000 ransom during a trip to interview a powerful gang leader in the violence-ravaged Caribbean island of Haiti. YouTube star Addison Pierre Maalouf, known online as “Your Fellow Arab,” was set to meet with notorious gang boss Jimmy “Barbecue” Cherizier but was […]
KADUNA, Nigeria—More than 130 Nigerian schoolchildren rescued after more than two weeks in captivity arrived Monday in their home state in northwestern Nigeria ahead of their anticipated reunions with families, following the latest in a series of mass school abductions in the West African nation. Six of the 137 students remain in hospital, and one […]
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.—A man accused of stabbing his ex-girlfriend and kidnapping and killing her 2-year-old daughter has agreed to plead guilty to a federal charge of kidnapping resulting in death, court records show. The plea agreement entered into Thursday by Rashad Trice shows he faces a minimum term of life in prison and a $250,000 […]
Gunmen in Nigeria kidnapped around 287 school pupils in the northern town of Kuriga on Thursday. The kidnapping happened shortly after the morning assembly at a local government school in the town of Kuriga, in the Chikun region of the state of Kaduna. The precise number of abducted pupils is continuing to be updated. “The […]
Three prison escapees from Grenada are charged with murder over the slaying of an American couple presumed dead after they went missing from their yacht in the Caribbean. The suspects made their first court appearance on Thursday in St. George’s Magistrate Court. The men were jointly charged with two counts of capital murder in the […]
RAPID CITY, S.D.—A federal jury in South Dakota has convicted two men on charges related to the 2022 kidnapping of an FBI employee. The jury in Rapid City on Tuesday found 29-year-old Deyvin Morales and 25-year-old Juan Alvarez-Soto guilty of kidnapping, carjacking and other counts, the Rapid City Journal reported. Mr. Alvarez-Soto, who is from […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio—A second man has been convicted on charges stemming from the death of an Ohio religious leader authorities said was killed in a botched robbery attempt. Isaiah Brown-Miller, 23, was convicted Friday of kidnapping and aggravated robbery charges in his third trial in the December 2021 death of 48-year-old Columbus imam Mohamed Hassan Adam, […]
A Texas man who kidnapped a 13-year-old girl in San Antonio and sexually assaulted her multiple times while driving her to Southern California last year pleaded guilty to a federal kidnapping charge Friday as part of a plea agreement, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California said. Steven Robert Sablan, 62, abducted […]
BALLSTON SPA, N.Y.—A man accused of kidnapping a 9-year-old girl from a state park in upstate New York raped the child during the two days she was held hostage before her rescue, prosecutors said Friday. Craig N. Ross Jr. was initially charged only with first-degree kidnapping in the abduction of the girl on Sept. 30 […]
BARRANCAS, Colombia—The father of Liverpool striker Luis Díaz was released Thursday by members of a guerrilla group who kidnapped him in northern Colombia, the government announced, ending a 12-day ordeal for the family. Luis Manuel Díaz’s kidnapping on Oct. 28 from his hometown of Barrancas had quickly drawn international attention and appeals for his release. […]
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—Two brothers and another man are facing federal charges following a kidnapping that took some bizarre twists, including an attempted waterboarding when they tried to make the victim help them lure the intended target, federal officials said Tuesday. The suspects kidnapped the man at gunpoint outside his apartment in Plantation, Florida, on Oct. […]
MOREAU, N.Y.—A fingerprint on a ransom note led police to a kidnapping suspect’s camper in New York where 9-year-old Charlotte Sena was found hidden in a cabinet, ending a two-day search sparked by the girl’s disappearance during a family camping trip, officials said. “We are thrilled that she is home and we understand that the […]
An American woman and her child have been kidnapped in Haiti, a faith-based humanitarian organization announced on July 29. Alix Dorsainvil, from New Hampshire, and her child were kidnapped on the morning of July 27 near Port-Au-Prince in the Caribbean country, the Christian aid organization El Roi Haiti said in a statement. Ms. Dorsainvil is the wife […]
An Alabama woman who confessed to fabricating a kidnapping story has been charged with falsely reporting an incident to law enforcement, according to authorities. Speaking at a news conference on July 28, Hoover Police Department Chief Nicholas Derzis said Carlethia “Carlee” Nichole Russell has been charged with two misdemeanors: filing a false police report and […]
California lawmakers will vote on a bill tomorrow that critics are calling state-sanctioned kidnapping. The law would allow kids 12 and up to leave home and check into a residential facility without parental consent. NTD spoke with attorney Nicole Pearson from the legal firm Truth Law Facts Justice to find out the details.
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich.—A man accused of supporting a foiled plot to kidnap Michigan’s governor plans to change his not-guilty plea, records show. Shawn Michael Fix, 40, of Belleville, is one of five men charged with providing material support for an act of terrorism in the scheme to abduct Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020 at […]
HOUSTON—A second teenager has been charged with kidnapping several migrants and allegedly holding them captive for several days at a Houston hotel before they were rescued by FBI agents during a confrontation that ended with the fatal shooting of another suspect, authorities said Monday. Demarcus Celestine, 17, was charged on Saturday with three counts of […]
