Suspect Jailed After Man Beaten, Forced To Withdraw Money From Lafayette Bank
A man walked into a bank in Lafayette Tuesday afternoon and told the staff that he'd been kidnapped and forced to withdraw money from his account, according to police.
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A man walked into a bank in Lafayette Tuesday afternoon and told the staff that he'd been kidnapped and forced to withdraw money from his account, according to police.
A disbarred Harvard University-trained attorney was sentenced to 40 years in prison today for the 2015 abduction of a Vallejo woman in a bizarre case in which police initially falsely accused the woman and her boyfriend of making up the crime, federal prosecutors said.
The California Highway Patrol was investigating an alleged kidnapping and DUI crash on U.S. Highway 101 in Sonoma County early Tuesday morning.
Almost five years after the disappearance of Morgan Hill teen Sierra LaMar, on Monday opening statements were given in the murder trial of the man accused of kidnapping and killing her.
The trial of Antolin Garcia-Torres, the man charged with the kidnapping and murder of Sierra LaMar in 2012 has been postponed until Jan. 30.
Prosecutors charged a man with kidnapping and carjacking Thursday for allegedly stealing a woman's car while her 4-year-old child was inside as she was dropping her younger child off at a San Leandro daycare facility on Tuesday.
A 27-year-old transient man from San Francisco was charged Friday with six felony counts for allegedly raping an intoxicated woman in San Leandro whom he apparently had met after she boarded a BART train in San Francisco last month.
The woman at the center of a bizarre kidnapping plot in Vallejo posted on Facebook that she's being harassed by strangers.
A man who allegedly kept a University of California at Santa Cruz student against her will in his car early Thursday morning was arrested later that night, campus police said Friday.
Questions about what happened to Sherri Papini during her 22 days as a kidnap victim just seem to grow.
A student at the University of California at Santa Cruz who hitchhiked from a bus stop was briefly held against her will early Thursday morning, campus police said.
A Northern California sheriff says the abductors of a woman who was held captive for three weeks branded her with a message before she was released.
The husband of a woman abducted while jogging near Redding revealed the horrific details of her captivity and injuries for the first time since she was found chained, beaten and with a bag over head on the side of Highway I-5 Thanksgiving morning.
A Northern California woman was chained to an object and had been badly beaten when found near Interstate 5 three weeks after she disappeared while jogging.
The older sister of a Northern California mother who was missing for three weeks said Friday the return of her sibling made for the best Thanksgiving ever.
Oakland man was arrested Friday on suspicion of trying to run over his wife, pushing her out of a moving car and kidnapping her son.
An Amber Alert has been issued for a 7-month-old baby boy who authorities suspect was taken by his mother from the infant's grandmother Sunday, according to the Sonoma County Sheriff's office.
A kidnapping suspect led officers in Rio Vista on a high-speed pursuit Monday afternoon after officers learned a woman was seen jumping out of his car.
Jury selection began Monday in the capital murder trial of a man accused of kidnapping and killing 15-year-old Sierra LaMar four years ago.
A man was arrested in Emeryville Friday on suspicion of attempting to kidnap a 5-year-old.
A man dressed as a clown tried to take a 1-year-old girl from a Concord bus stop Wednesday afternoon as social media threats associated with "creepy clowns" continued to be directed at schools throughout the Bay Area, police said.
The couple in the Bay Area's bizarre kidnapping case was still demanding justice Thursday, even after the kidnapper in the case changed his plea to guilty.
A former U.S. Marine changed his plea to guilty Friday in the bizarre kidnapping case that led to a lawsuit against Vallejo police for falsely accusing the two victims of faking their own abduction.
A former U.S. Marine is expected to plead guilty to kidnapping on Thursday morning in a bizarre case that led to a lawsuit against Vallejo police for falsely accusing the two victims of faking their own abduction, according to court filings.
Authorities in the East Bay are warning families not to fall for a frightening scam that is targeting the parents of young children.
