Five people have been arrested in connection with last week’s kidnapping and assault of four Americans that left two dead, a Mexican official announced Friday, a day after members of a Mexican cartel ...
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Two Americans Dead And Two Others Found Alive After Violent Kidnapping In Mexico
Topline Two Americans are dead and two others survived after being kidnapped and assaulted by armed men in Mexico Friday, Mexican officials announced Tuesday, after the four Americans from the Carolin...
Gretchen Whitmer Kidnapping Co-Conspirator Sentenced To Nearly 20 Years In Prison
Topline A federal judge sentenced a leader of the failed plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to 19 years and seven months in prison on Wednesday, the longest sentence imposed in the investig...
DOJ Charges Pelosi Attack Suspect With Attempted Kidnapping
Topline The Department of Justice on Monday charged the man accused of attacking House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, alleging in court papers that defendant David DePape told police he wanted to “ho...
Two Men Convicted In Attempted Kidnapping Of Michigan Governor Whitmer
Topline A jury convicted two men Tuesday for plotting to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D) in 2020, part of what prosecutors have described as a larger domestic terrorist plan to set off a...
New Trial Ordered In Whitmer Kidnapping Case
Topline A federal judge on Thursday ordered a new trial for the two alleged ringleaders of a 2020 plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D), nearly three months after a jury deadlocked over ch...
Mystery of Crypto Ransomers Kidnapping Norwegian Millionaire’s Wife Remains Unsolved
Alex Dovbnya More details have emerged about the mysterious kidnapping of the Norwegian billionaire’s wife The mysterious disappearance of the wife of Norwegian millionaire Tom Hagen keeps making head...
Jury Convicts British ISIS Member For Role In Kidnapping Americans—Including Murdered Reporter James Foley
Topline A British man was found guilty in U.S. court Thursday for helping to kidnap several American citizens—including slain photojournalist James Foley—while part of the Islamic State, closing out o...
Two Acquitted In Whitmer Kidnapping Plot Trial, Mistrial Declared For Other Two
Topline A jury on Friday acquitted two Michigan men who were accused of plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D), according to multiple reports, and failed to reach a unanimous verdict fo...
Seven Men from Hong Kong Arrested Following Alleged Kidnapping of Crypto Trader
Seven members alleged to be members of the Hong Kong triad have been arrested in connection with the kidnapping of a cryptocurrency trader. The trader was held last year for ransom that amounted to ro...
Police Officer In India arrested for kidnapping crypto trader
A police officer in India has been arrested for kidnapping a local crypto trader to get a bitcoin ransom worth $40 million. Cryptocurrency trader Vijay Naik was the victim of the kidnap by a police o...