A Brooklyn man with a lengthy rap sheet was arrested Thursday after allegedly trying to snatch a 2-year-old boy from a stroller as his mother pushed him across an intersection. WPIX reports that Matthew Waly, 27, approached the 32-year-old mother at Prospect Park at around 9 p.m. and grabbed her stroller. The toddler’s father was nearby at the time …
The biological mother of a Florida teen who was abducted at birth said she’s cut ties with her daughter for still pursuing a relationship with her kidnapper. Shanara Mobley, 36, told the Daily Mail that daughter Kamiyah, 19, has refused to sever ties with Gloria Williams—the woman who posed as a nurse and abducted her from …
The woman who abducted a newborn from a Jacksonville, Florida, hospital in July 1998 and went on to raise the girl as her own for 18 years was sentenced to prison on Friday. Gloria Williams, 52, was sentenced to 18 years in prison for a plot that involved her posing as a nurse to steal a …
A Houston man was arrested Tuesday night in connection with the attempted and successful kidnapping—and sexual assaults—of multiple women in two Texas counties. The Houston Chronicle reported that information from the victims and public helped police identify Howard Dixon, 22, as the suspect. He was reportedly arrested in The Woodlands late Tuesday and is being held on $200,000 bail. According to …
A dad’s quick-thinking reportedly stopped a Tennessee woman from kidnapping his 5-year-old son. Per The Commercial Appeal, the child’s father told police that Gina A. Ricard, 53, snatched her son then attempted to run. The father, Jerome Robinson, reportedly struck Ricard, who then got in an SUV without the child. WHBQ reported that Robinson got …
A convicted felon already facing charges for kidnapping a 4-year-old from her South Carolina home is now facing sex-related charges in connection with the case, according to a federal indictment. Thomas Lawton Evans Jr., 37, is facing numerous felony charges in relation to abducting a a little girl from her Johns Island home on February 13, …
An arrest has been made in the case of Delano, Minnesota, dog who was possibly held for ransom before he was shot to death. Bounty hunter Stew Peters told KMSP that an anonymous tip led them to arrest someone Friday morning in Minneapolis. The suspect is being held on suspicion that they made threatening calls like the …
A California woman who was dropping her child off at school allegedly saved a 12-year-old girl from an attempted kidnapper by pretending to be the girl’s mother. According to the Fountain Valley Patch, Amy Martinez was walking to Lathrop Intermediate School in Santa Ana on Wednesday morning when she was grabbed by a homeless woman. “She …
The mother of a little girl abducted from her South Carolina home on Tuesday was brutally beaten in the face and tied up at knife point, according to new information obtained via an arrest affidavit. As CrimeOnline previously reported, a 4-year-old girl was abducted from her Johns Island home off of Sweetleaf Lane on Tuesday …
Gloria Williams pleaded guilty Monday morning in a Jacksonville, Florida, court to charges related to stealing a newborn baby girl nearly two decades earlier and raising the child as her own. Williams, 52, agreed to plead guilty to kidnapping and interference. In exchange, she faces no more than 22 years on the kidnapping charge and no …
Authorities in Michigan arrested a 19-year-old woman accused of fabricating allegations that she was kidnapped from an area shopping mall. According to the New York Post, Alexis Marie Bradish told a friend about the alleged crime. When that individual contacted authorities, she reportedly repeated the claims in conversations with investigators. “The allegation she made is …
An Ovilla, Texas, couple is accused of drugging, kidnapping, and keeping a woman as a slave for two weeks. According to WFAA, a tip led local police to the home of Jean-Claude Demars, 51, and Charlotte Demars, 41. There, the couple allegedly took officers to a bedroom where a 51-year-old woman was allegedly chained to a bed. …
