Family Warns Of Terrifying Kidnapping Scam
A South Florida family says they were recently targeted by a terrifying kidnapping scam.
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A South Florida family says they were recently targeted by a terrifying kidnapping scam.
Doris Wasden of Utah not only stood up to the criminal but was reportedly able to secure her own release during a tense standoff with police.
The girl told police she was able to get away by kicking the man.
The boy was reportedly standing at the bus stop around 7:05 a.m. on Thursday when a car stopped, and a woman in the back seat opened her door. Then, a man inside the vehicle said "get the boy in the car."
Police say the victim sent messages to her mother that she was being held against her will by the male suspect in a car driven by him.
The man was pulled over by an MSP trooper on I-75.
Police in southwest Michigan say two children who were kidnapped from foster care by their parents have been found save in Indiana.
A special enforcement team made a traffic stop, arrested the three suspects, and rescued the victim.
Police said the accused was supposed to give the young woman a ride home -- but instead he attacked.
Gregory Walker is among those accused in the kidnapping and murder of 13-year-old Deontae Mitchell.
A 21-year-old Detroit man has been charged with kidnapping in a case that sparked an Amber Alert earlier this week.
Deontae Mitchell disappeared Tuesday night while riding bikes with a cousin. Less than 40 hours later, he was found dead.
Detroit police are searching for two additional suspects in connection with the abduction and possible death of a 13-year-old boy who was the subject of an Amber Alert.
Authorities say a body found on Detroit's east side is likely that of a 13-year-old boy who was the subject of an Amber Alert.
Investigators are still searching for Deontae Mitchell and 45-year-old Gregory Walker, who is suspected of kidnapping the boy.
Chief James Craig says police have video evidence of the abduction.
The 13-year-old used a spare key to escape Wednesday night, police said.
The girl had said a man wearing a mask forced her into a white pickup truck.
Two cousins suspected of repeatedly raping a woman they allegedly kidnapped from a drug store in Lincoln Park are expected to be formally arraigned in the case Friday.
Fernando Anderson IV is allegedly one of two men who carjacked a woman in a Wallgreens parking lot last week.
One of the suspects wanted in connection with a horrific kidnapping and sexual assault Downriver is now in police custody.
They drove around in the victim's vehicle "periodically taking turns raping" her, according to police.
When officers searched the woman's name upon her arrival at the border, they found she had an outstanding warrant for custodial kidnapping.
The FBI's Milwaukee and Detroit offices issued identical news releases announcing that agents and police arrested 46-year-old Kimberly Lee Johns Friday at her home in Marathon, Wisconsin.
Patricia Jernigan, 23, and Terrell Smith, 31, were charged in 19th district court in Dearborn with four counts -- torture, kidnapping, criminal sexual conduct and armed robbery.
James Burke is charged with two counts of manslaughter after his police cruiser crashed into a vehicle carrying two men.
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Ann Arbor Police responded to South Knightsbridge Circle after receiving a report that a body was found outside.
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The 8-foot dinghy that Brian Hooker says he and his wife, Lynette Hooker, were aboard when she disappeared in the Bahamas in early April, was seized by U.S. Coast Guard investigators Thursday.
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