A Mississippi hotel clerk sensed something wasn’t quite right when a man showed up and checked into a hotel with a baby while acting bizarre. The clerk’s quick thinking resulted in the man’s arrest and a missing baby found safely. Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that a Ramada Inn clerk in Pearl, Mississippi, contacted police after a …
Authorities in North Carolina say a soldier stationed at Fort Bragg was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping a 12-year-old girl. According to the New York Post, 19-year-old James Murdock Peele was found with the missing girl after she vanished from her grandmother’s home in Carolina Pines. The suspect allegedly left a ransom note behind before …
A woman was recently arrested in connection with the 1991 kidnapping of a 19-year-old Georgia woman who remains missing 27 years later. Per The Macon Telegraph, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation arrested Melinda McSwain, 46, at Mercer University and charged her with the kidnapping of Sabrina Long. Long was last seen August 14, 1991, at …
A 3-year-old Massachusetts boy who vanished in 2016 was reportedly found Tuesday living with his mother in Florida. According to the Orlando Sentinel, Christina Hale, 40, took her son, Matthew Hale, from Webster, Massachusetts, in September 2016 after the boy’s father was awarded full custody. An anonymous tip to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children …
Authorities in New York say an Uber driver was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping a passenger during late-night ride earlier this year. According to WNBC, 24-year-old Harbir Parmar appeared earlier this week at a federal court in White Plains to faces criminal charges related to the February 21 incident. According to investigators, Parmar picked up …
Authorities in Colorado say a man is in custody on suspicion of attempted kidnapping following an incident earlier this week. According to KMGH, the suspect approached an 11-year-old girl walking away from her bus stop on Thursday afternoon. Police did not name the man, but said he is in his late 30s and did not …
‘I’m being harassed because I’m with 2 kids that do not look like me,’ Corey Lewis wrote on the video he posted to Facebook
Police in Oregon arrested a woman Saturday night after she allegedly attempted to steal an 8-month-old baby boy from his family as they ate at a restaurant. Per KATU, Oregon City officers responded to Shari’s at 8 p.m. and made contact with Pauline Gaines, 50. The incident reportedly involved Gaines and the infant son of one …
PHOENIX (AP) — A son of actor Jean-Claude Van Damme has been sentenced to 18 months of probation after pleading guilty to disorderly conduct for holding his roommate at knifepoint at their apartment in suburban Phoenix. Maricopa County Superior Court officials said 22-year-old Nicholas Francois Van Varenberg was sentenced Wednesday. Tempe police said Van Varenberg …
A 12-year-old New York girl who disappeared Wednesday and became the subject of an AMBER Alert was found safe Friday. According to the Albany Times Union, the AMBER Alert for Malaya Johnson was canceled at 1 p.m. after police confirmed she was with family. Since then, George Torres, 19, was charged with kidnapping and endangering the …
Two men and two women have been arrested in Michigan for allegedly planning to kidnap, rape, torture and murder a child, according to authorities—who expressed that the plan was thwarted just in time. Michigan Attorney Bill Schuette identified the suspects as David Bailey, 37, of Coldwater, Matthew Toole, 32, of Battle Creek, Talia Furman, 32, …
By LINDSAY WHITETHURST DRAPER, Utah (AP) — A woman who helped kidnap Elizabeth Smart when she was a teenager and stood by as the girl was sexually assaulted was released from prison Wednesday after 15 years in custody. Wanda Barzee, 72, left the Utah state prison in the Salt Lake City suburb of Draper, spokeswoman …
