Kidnapping

The woman picked up in the middle of the night and tossed into a dark minivan in what police believed to be a brazen kidnapping off a Brooklyn street has been found safely, and was not in fact the victim of a crime, the NYPD determined. Police circulated surveillance images over the weekend from the Friday morning incident in Gravesend,…

Police are turning to the public for more information about a woman seemingly taken off the street in Brooklyn. News 4’s Melissa Colorado reports.

A middle-of-the-night kidnapping reported to police was apparently caught on camera Friday when an unidentified woman was grabbed while walking down a Brooklyn street. Police say the kidnapping occurred around 1:45 a.m. Friday in Gravesend, near Avenue W and Stillwell Avenue. Images circulated by the department Saturday appear to show a suspect approach the woman before picking up her and…

Three Brooklyn residents were charged after kidnapping a New Jersey teenager and torturing the victim as they held the individual for ransom, according to prosecutors.

A prosecutor says a hostage rescue in Houston in which one person was fatally shot on Thursday first began days ago when three migrants were kidnapped from a vehicle in a neighboring county.

The mother of the 13-year-old girl kidnapped and sexually assaulted by a man in North Carolina tracked her daughter’s online activity.

The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for the return of four Americans thought to be kidnapped in an attack in Mexico on Friday.

A cross-country kidnapping case ended in South Jersey when the victim escaped from capture and ran into a gas station. NBC10’s Cydney Long, live from New Gretna, was able to retrieve security footage and spoke to the first woman that helped the victim after her escape.

New Jersey officials claim the woman suffered abuse and isolation at the hands of a man she met as “Brett Parker” last February in New Mexico, nearly on the opposite coast of where she would escape his control one year later.

Blake Gilley, 38, said his children told him that they were instructed not to interact with others. Their mother has been accused of kidnapping.

A man sought in the killings of three people found in a burning Riverside home and killed in a confrontation with sheriff’s deputies in the Mojave Desert town of Needles was identified as a Virginian lawman, authorities said Sunday.

Five NYPD officers were hurt while trying to apprehend a man who allegedly kidnapped a woman at knifepoint as she walked on Long Island late Wednesday and drove into New York City, where cops tried to box him in, authorities say. Tracie Strahan reports.

An alleged abduction on Long Island comes to a chaotic end in Brooklyn. Tracie Strahan reports.

The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office responded to a home on Bunker Lane in Palm Coast, about 60 miles south of Jacksonville, on the evening of Sept. 27 about a report of a possible child abduction, it said in a news release. 

A 48-year-old man suspected of kidnapping and killing a family in Central California used to work for the victims’ trucking business, NBC Bay Area has learned.

Authorities in California say a kidnapped family of four has been found dead.

The Merced County Sheriff’s Office released footage of the kidnapping of four family members at gunpoint in Merced, California.

An autopsy report shows that a Tennessee kindergarten teacher who police said was kidnapped during a pre-dawn run and then killed earlier this month died from a gunshot wound to the head.

Memphis Police Chief C.J. Davis provided details on Tuesday on the grim discovery of missing teacher Eliza Fletcher’s body the night before and the arrest of a suspect in her murder.

Cleotha Abston, 38, “has been charged with especially aggravated kidnapping and tampering with evidence,” the Memphis Police Department statement said Sunday.