Kidnapping

A rideshare driver in Massachusetts has been arrested on a kidnapping charge after he allegedly trapped a woman inside his car in Brighton late Thursday night, police said.

Parents in National City say they woke up to find their 11-year-old daughter not in her bed. After a city-wide manhunt and rescue, the girl is now safe and police say the 20-year-old accused of taking her is in jail.

A Bay Shore man who pretended to be a police officer and kidnapped a 14-year-old girl off a Long Island street in the middle of the afternoon Wednesday is now in custody, authorities say. The 14-year-old was walking with a 16-year-old girl on Herbert Avenue in Lindenhurst around 3:35 p.m. when the man, who was driving a white Nissan SUV,…

A man pretending to be a police officer kidnapped a 14-year-old girl off a Long Island street in the middle of the afternoon Wednesday and remains on the loose, authorities say.

The father of two children who were forcibly taken from their western New York foster home and later found in Alabama has been arrested in the kidnapping, police announced.

Authorities in Hayward on Monday charged 59-year-old David Misch in the cold case kidnapping and killing of 9-year-old Michaela Garecht, who disappeared 32 years ago.

Swedish police suspect a woman of keeping her adult son locked in an apartment for nearly three decades.

A man convicted in the kidnapping of rapper Tekashi 6ix9ine has been sentenced to 24 years in prison by a judge who cited his leadership role in a gang active nationwide

A Bronx man faces federal charges for allegedly kidnapping his girlfriend and her 7-year-old son, holding them hostage in a Manhattan apartment for days, where he beat them both and raped the mother, the FBI and NYPD said Wednesday. Aquilino Torres is expected to be arraigned in Manhattan federal court later Wednesday; he was arrested a day earlier on charges…

An Afghan national and purported Taliban member has been arrested in connection with the 2008 kidnapping of Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter David Rohde in Afghanistan, prosecutors and sources familiar with the investigation tell News 4. He is being charged in Manhattan federal court. An indictment unsealed in Southern District of New York court Wednesday charges Haji Najibullah with…

Donny Jackson, 40, was arrested after allegedly abducting his two daughters, who were later found safe. It is unclear what his relationship is to the two dead boys.

A New Jersey couple has been rescued after two men allegedly kidnapped them and forced them to take money out of the ATM. Cliffton police say Paul Dunlop and Travis Mann walked up to a man and a woman in a parked car near the corner of Main and Vreeland Avenues late Friday and identified themselves as police officers. The…

NJ Police Arrest Kidnapping Suspects Who Allegedly Pretended to be Cops

A woman convicted of fatally strangling a pregnant woman, cutting her body open and kidnapping her baby is scheduled to be the first female inmate put to death by the U.S. government in more than six decades.

Members of anti-government paramilitary groups discussed kidnapping Virginia’s governor during a June meeting in Ohio, an FBI agent testified Tuesday during a court hearing for a group of men accused of plotting to abduct Michigan’s governor.

A New Jersey bodega owner who was seen being abducted by gunpoint and shoved into the back of a truck by two men has been found safe in New York City.

A New Jersey bodega owner who was seen being abducted by gunpoint and shoved into the back of a truck by two men has been found safe in New York City. Investigators say two men walked into the store on the corner of 10th Avenue and E 28th Street in Paterson shortly after Miguel Espejo opened his shop Thursday morning….

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer thanked law enforcement on Thursday for their work in foiling a plot to kidnap her from her vacation home. The governor also accused President Donald Trump of encouraging extremism when he refused to condemn white supremacists during last week’s debate.

The FBI arrested at least six men on Thursday for plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer from her vacation home.

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