Merced Kidnapping: Family of four found dead
According to the Merced County Sheriff's Office, the family of four has been found dead.
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According to the Merced County Sheriff's Office, the family of four has been found dead.
Authorities in Merced County in Central California say the four, including an infant, were taken from a business there and the abductor is likely armed and dangerous.
An Amber Alert has been issued in Fontana after a man, identified as Anthony Graziano, fatally shot a woman near Cypress Elementary School and took off with his 15-year-old daughter at around 7:30 a.m.
As the investigation into the disappearance of missing 16-year-old Northern California girl Kiely Rodni continues, authorities now believe that the incident may be a kidnapping.
Lauren Pozen reports from Palmdale, where a large scale investigation continued after a woman was shot in the face while trying to fight off her daughter's would-be kidnapper late Sunday evening. Authorities located the suspect and the kidnapped girl just down the road.
Los Angeles police swarmed DTLA after a possible kidnapping near East 18th Street.
The mother and son were reunited after police were able to successfully slow the stolen vehicle down using spike strips. The suspect was arrested and the child was safely recovered with no further incident.
Police say they are concerned that the suspect, 38-year-old Ottoniel Mendoza, may have committed similar crimes in the past.
The defendants allegedly sent the victim's family photos of her through an online app.
Anaheim police have officially charged Andrew Pio in connection with the attempted kidnapping of a 13-year-old girl on her way home from school last week. He was detained following a lengthy pursuit through Anaheim on Friday.
Anaheim police detained a man driving the vehicle that matches the description of one used wanted in the attempted kidnapping of a 13-year-old girl last Thursday afternoon.
Authorities believe that the vehicle matches the description of the Ford F-150 wanted in the attempted kidnapping of a teenager as she was walking home from her middle school in Anaheim on March 31. Rina Nakano reports.
The first suspect was arrested the day of the attack.
Authorities are searching for two men who attempted to kidnap a 12-year-old girl last week in Ojai.
Even though it has been 20 years, a Costa Mesa man said he can't forget how Sherri Papini lied to him during the brief time they dated in the early 2000s.
Sherri Papini, 39, of Redding, was found in November 2016 after days of searching in California and several nearby states, with bindings on her body and injuries including a "brand" on her right shoulder.
The suspect drove the victim to his house and recorded a video of the sexual assault.
Los Angeles Police are pursuing a kidnapping suspect in South Los Angeles.
Authorities named 35-year-old Jacob Clare, Noah's biological father and Amber's uncle, as the suspect. He is believed to be armed and dangerous.
Anthony Valladares, 29, was sentenced Friday in the violent abduction of Ruochen "Tony" Liao of Santa Ana in 2018. Liao's body was eventually found buried in the Mojave Desert late last year.
The woman told police she had been walking near Mission Inn Avenue and Mount Rubidoux Drive on July 31 when she was forced into a vehicle and sexually assaulted.
Two men suspected of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman in downtown Huntington Beach were arrested, authorities announced Wednesday.
Eddy Reyes, 35, an employee of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, has been in custody without bond since his arrest on April 15. The indictment returned Wednesday charges him with kidnapping his wife, 21-year-old Claudia Sanchez Reyes, on May 6, 2016, an incident that resulted in her death.
Michael Sangbong Rhee, 37, was arrested Thursday night at his home in Lake Forest. Irvine police say Rhee may have attacked a woman, believing she was white, in retaliation for the rise in hate crimes against Asian people.
A man who allegedly took an 11-month-old girl from her family's home in South Los Angeles pleaded not guilty Thursday to a kidnapping charge.
