Kidnapping

Federal authorities say nearly 40 missing or endangered children have been rescued by federal and state agents in Georgia.

An Atlanta-area mother who attempted to shoot and fight off kidnappers was reunited with her child Saturday after the baby was found unharmed, authorities said.

Deputies arrested a man this weekend who allegedly told them he drove from South Carolina to a home in Central Florida with a plan to kidnap a World Wrestling Entertainment star. NBC affiliate WFLA-TV reports that 24-year-old Phillip Thomas II had been stalking Sonya Deville for several years on social media and drove to her home north of Tampa this…

The two youngsters were supposed to be visiting their paternal grandparents in Baychester for the week, and had plans to go to the Bronx Zoo and visit the city, but those plans were cut short after the two were taken away by their parents

NBC New York’s Ray Villeda reports.

A couple was arrested last week and accused of collecting payments in a kidnap for ransom scheme that left a San Diego man and a Norwalk man dead in Tijuana, Mexico.

A Washington state woman and her 16-year-old daughter were arrested Friday afternoon after the woman allegedly posed as a baby photographer and drugged a mother in an attempt to steal her newborn, NBC News reports.

An 11-year-old girl abducted in Springfield was found safe and her alleged kidnapper arrested Wednesday evening after an Amber Alert was issued amid an hourslong search, Massachusetts State Police said.

San Jose police, with the help of a security guard, arrested a 70-year-old man this week on suspicion of kidnapping and molesting a 13-year-old girl, according to the police department.

A kidnapping victim was found safe and a suspect has been arrested after Las Vegas police released security camera footage of a woman being taken by the suspect.

A Bronx man is facing kidnapping charges after police say he was caught on camera grabbing a woman off a subway train, according to the NYPD. Police say Sonny Alloway, 48, was charged with unlawful imprisonment after allegedly carrying the woman off a 6 train at the Morrison Avenue-Soundview station over the weekend. Gothamist first reported on the case. Warning:…

A Michigan man recently identified as the newborn boy snatched from his mother in 1964 by someone posing as a maternity-ward nurse was found through commercial ancestry websites after the man or a child of his submitted DNA to the sites to learn more about their family tree, a genetic genealogist who played a role in the discovery told The…

A 16-year-old girl was grabbed off a Bronx street right in front of her mother Monday night — and police are investigating the case as a possible kidnapping, authorities say. An Amber Alert was issued at 10 a.m. Tuesday.

It looked like a parent’s worst nightmare, a child being snatched off the streets. But sources say police are looking into the possibility the kidnapping was staged, and the girl was helped in the play by her boyfriend. NBC New York’s Erica Byfield reports.

An Amber Alert was issued Tuesday for the 16-year-old girl was grabbed off a Bronx street right in front of her mother Monday night — and police are investigating the case as a possible kidnapping, authorities say.

Police in New York City are investigating a report of a possible kidnapping of a 16-year-old girl that occurred late Monday night.

A 54-year-old Long Island man has been arrested by the FBI and Suffolk County police on charges of attempted trafficking by force and attempted kidnapping, authorities said Friday.

Body camera footage released Tuesday shows the tense moments a Utah state trooper spotted a kidnapping suspect’s van on Interstate 15 in Cedar City, where the lawman conducted a traffic stop and encountered the suspect, two other adults, and the victims.

A man was held for ransom by a man pretending to be selling a car and a cop who posed as the victim’s brother helped get him back safely.

A man was held for ransom by a man pretending to be selling a car and a cop who posed as the victim’s brother helped get him back safely. Checkey Beckford reports.