May 9—Kalispell Police officers arrested a 38-year-old man late Wednesday night for allegedly attempting to kidnap a 16-year-old boy at a gas station south of town. Aaron Douglas Kupka of Kalispell was booked into the Flathead County Detention Center on a pending felony attempted kidnapping charge and a probation violation. He remained behind bars Thursday […]
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Armed men ambushed and kidnapped a senior judge in Pakistan’s restive northwest, a police official said Sunday. Around 15 men on motorbikes intercepted Judge Shakirullah Marwat’s vehicle as he was travelling toward Dera Ismail Khan district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, said police official Faheem Khan. The assailants set the car on […]
A man arrested as part of an investigation into the shooting death of a Homestead woman carjacked at gunpoint at an Orlando-area intersection admitted to FBI agents he was paid to kidnap her and deliver her to someone. Jordanish Torres-Garcia, 28, told the FBI that he was the masked man seen in a video at […]
SAN JOSE, Calif. – San Jose police on Thursday announced the arrest of three people suspected in a kidnap and torture case earlier this year. Investigators said the kidnapping happened on Feb. 13 when a man was held in the 2600 block of Million Court. “Multiple suspects held the victim against his will and tortured […]
Bellingham police arrest man after he allegedly attempted to force someone into his car at gunpoint. Erick Armano Price, 27, messaged someone who was known to him and arranged a meeting at a residence in the 3300 block of Northwest Avenue, according to Megan Peters with the Bellingham Police Department. The person arrived at the […]
A Farmingdale man accused last week of attempting to kidnap a teenaged girl in Lakewood and molesting a separate female victim in Toms River began his alleged crime spree in Burlington County, where he struck his pregnant girlfriend on the head with an aluminum baseball bat, according to police documents. Quamel Benton, 35, was arrested […]
Eighteen months after Sherri Papini was sentenced to prison in her kidnapping hoax and ordered to pay more than $300,000 in restitution, federal officials say she has failed to pay up and are seeking a garnishment order to force payment of the debt. In a two-page filing Sunday in Sacramento federal court, Assistant U.S. Attorney […]
TOMS RIVER — A 35-year-old Farmingdale man was charged with attempted kidnapping, luring and criminal sexual contact in connection with a series of incidents that happened Thursday and into the early morning hours of Friday in Lakewood, Toms River and Willingboro, Ocean County Prosecutor Bradley D. Billhimer said. Quamel Benton was also charged with two […]
A search is underway in South Carolina for a man who attempted to kidnap a minor Saturday, the Richland County Sheriff’s Department said. At about 8 p.m., deputies responded to a report of an attempted abduction in the 200 block of Baysdale Drive, the sheriff’s department said Sunday in a news release. That’s in an […]
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Armed men invaded a boarding school in northwestern Nigeria early Saturday and abducted 15 children, police told The Associated Press, about 48 hours after nearly 300 students were taken hostage in the conflict-hit region. School abductions are common in Nigeria’s northern region, especially since the 2014 kidnapping of more than 200 […]
An Erie man accused of trying to kidnap a 13-year-old girl when police said he told them he was looking for a prostitute in late January is facing trial after he was held for court on all charges Monday afternoon. Harry Rodriguez Felix, 33, was held for court on two first-degree felony counts of criminal […]
Authorities with the Los Angeles Police Department are asking for the public’s help in locating a woman wanted for an attempted kidnapping Sunday afternoon. The incident occurred at a Target store located at 620 S. Virgil at around 12:30 p.m., according to an an LAPD Community Alert notification. Police said the suspect, described as a […]