KIDNAPPING

Police described the victim as an 8-year-old Asian male child and said the suspect is an unidentified White female.

Authorities say the suspect in the kidnapping and killing of a central California family was a former employee who had a longstanding dispute with them.

A Northern California woman has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for faking her own kidnapping so she could go back to a former boyfriend, which led to an three-week, multi-state search.

Police in Memphis, Tennessee, said Tuesday that a body found during a search the day before is a woman who was abducted and forced into an SUV during an early morning jog.

Police say a man has been charged with kidnapping in the disappearance of a Tennessee woman who was out jogging last week when she was accosted and forced into an SUV.

Orange County residents are being alerted of scam calls regarding family members or loved ones being kidnapped or in an accident.

Colombia Kidnappings FILE - People march holding a sign that reads in Spanish: 'No to Kidnapping' during a march against kidnapping in Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011. The former FARC leaders recognized their role in these crimes during a hearing held by the Special Jurisdiction for Peace, a tribunal created following a 2016 peace deal between the FARC rebels and the Colombian government. The peace tribunal is in charge of investigating war crimes committed during the five decade long conflict between the FARC and the Colombian government and finding ways in which victims can be compensated. “In the name of our revolutionary ideals we committed war crimes and crimes against humanity” the former FARC leader said. He addressed the former rebel leaders during the hearing, and said he wanted to know who helped the FARC to kidnap the political leaders.

A group of former leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, say the guerrilla organization was responsible for war crimes, including the kidnapping of thousands of civilians for ransom and also holding politicians as hostages for several years in the hopes of exchanging them for imprisoned rebels.

Authorities are searching for a man who allegedly kidnapped a 3-month-old baby in the San Francisco Bay Area.

A 5-year-old died during a pursuit of a kidnapping suspect after a vehicle drove into a retention pond off I-95 in Florida, officials say.

Authorities say they’ve discovered the remains of an 18-year-old northern Nevada woman who was kidnapped over two weeks ago.

A giant straw goat that is an annual highlight in the city of Gavle is burned down by an arsonist.

A DeBary man recently arrested for violating his probation following a 2017 attempted kidnapping is now facing additional charges after allegedly stalking another jogger in October, according to the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office.

A man who was on probation for a 2017 attempted kidnapping is now back behind bars on a violation of probation as deputies investigate allegations that he had been harassing and following women.

Nigerian police say gunmen have abducted nine students on their way home from an Islamic school in the country’s northwest, two days after a mass school abduction took place in a neighboring state.

A Florida girl says she purposely got blue slime on the man who tried to kidnap her, thinking it would be good evidence against him.

Attorney Gary Ira Rosenberg negotiated the bond Splash Zanotti, whose legal name is Kejuan Brandon Campbell, without a detention hearing, the South Florida SunSentinel reported. The third man, Antonio James, is scheduled for a detention hearing next week. Prosecutors said Alexander-Wilcox confessed to kidnapping and rape, along with four other shootings and an armed carjacking, the newspaper reported. Federal Magistrate Judge Jared M. Strauss called the kidnapping “violent, and indeed horrific,”and ordered Alexander-Wilcox without bond pending trial. A detention hearing for James is scheduled for Monday.

TAMPA, Fla. A man has been arrested on multiple charges after he entered a hotel room near Tampa on Sunday morning and took a child, sheriff's officials said. The child's mother called 911 at 9:41 a.m. and said the man had walked into her hotel room and picked up the child. She was able to get the child away from the man, who ran from the hotel, the Tampa Bay Times reported. The law deprives the public of information that had long been made available under Floridas public records law. Thankfully, the mother and child were not hurt during the course of this incident, Sheriff Chad Chronister said in a statement.

DELTONA, Fla. – A man who was wanted on several charges after kidnapping his ex-girlfriend from her home has turned himself in, according to the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office. Joshua A. Miranda Rivera, 33, was at large and wanted by authorities, according to a news release. As she was driving, Rivera took her phone and began texting and calling the man he believed she had cheated on him with, records show. When the man finally answered, Rivera told him, “You think you’re going to talk to my woman you got another thing coming" then hung up on him, according to the affidavit. She said Rivera told her he would shoot her and the person she had been texting,” investigators said.