Gov. Brown Allows Parole For Notorious 1976 Chowchilla Kidnapper
California's governor is allowing parole for one of three men convicted in the kidnapping of 26 children and their school bus driver nearly 40 years ago.
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California's governor is allowing parole for one of three men convicted in the kidnapping of 26 children and their school bus driver nearly 40 years ago.
An East Bay car salesman is shaken up after he went on the ride of his life. He said a customer who was looking for a van commandeered the vehicle during a test drive and kidnapped him.
Two Oakland men allegedly snatched a 3-month-old infant from his grandfather in Vallejo Friday afternoon, according to police.
Matthew Muller had a resume built for success — a U.S. Marine veteran, Harvard Law School graduate and member of the California bar.
The Vallejo case police originally called a hoax appears to have been a well-planned kidnapping according to new details in a FBI affidavit.
A woman who lived alone in this small rental on a quiet Palo Alto street woke up to a strange man in her home back in 2009. It was the middle of the night. And police say he bound and blindfolded her, and threatened to rob and sexually assault her.
A man has been charged in connection to a bizarre Vallejo kidnapping case that authorities had once written off as a hoax.
Two men have been arrested Friday on suspicion of kidnapping a man in Oakland and holding him for ransom for several hours.
A 25-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of attempting to abduct a girl in Campbell over the weekend, police said Thursday.
A six-year-old girl reported to abducted in San Jose has been found Wednesday morning.
Vallejo police said that a colorful kidnapping story Friday involving a red car, a girl and a green dragon tattoo is false.
A terrified Fairfield mother was placed on the ground in handcuffs, just moments after her son had been kidnapped Monday morning. Her husband recorded the altercation, and now the family is demanding an explanation from Fairfield Police.
A 22-year-old student has been charged with three counts of attempted kidnapping to commit robbery for allegedly trying to force three teenage girls into his car over the past two months, according to the Alameda County District Attorney's Office.
A boy who was abducted in Fairfield early Monday morning, prompting the California Highway Patrol to issue an Amber Alert, has been found safe.
A boy who was abducted in Fairfield early this morning, prompting the California Highway Patrol to issue an Amber Alert, has been found safe.
School district officials issued a notice to parents about an attempted kidnapping at an Antioch high school Wednesday morning.
James Schoenfeld, one of three men convicted in the Chowchilla bus kidnapping nearly 40 years ago, is closer to becoming a free man.
A 36-year-old woman was scheduled to appear in Santa Clara County Superior Court on Thursday after her arrest Sunday on suspicion of a stealing a car with an infant inside in San Jose, according to police and jail officials.
"They say they entered a number of homes on Mare Island with hidden cameras, and used drones and infrared heat sensors," Rappaport said.
Investigators are looking at a pattern of increasingly brazen kidnapping attempts in Hayward, and teenage girls appear to be the intended target.
A San Jose woman was under arrest for allegedly driving off with someone's vehicle with a baby strapped in the back seat.
A 16-year-old girl told investigators she was walking home from Hayward High School when a man grabbed her and pulled her into the back seat of a white four-door sedan.
Attorneys representing a Vallejo woman who was allegedly kidnapped for ransom and her boyfriend disputed claims Thursday from police that the whole ordeal was a hoax.
In a matter of hours, the kidnapping and ransom case involving a Vallejo woman went from a tearful, happy ending to allegations of a hoax.
The Vallejo Police Department released a statement Wednesday night indicating that there was no evidence to support the claim that Denise Huskins was kidnapped from her Vallejo home early Monday morning.
