kidnapping
A former U.S. Customs and Border Protection employee has pleaded guilty to his wife’s kidnapping that resulted in her death. The United States Department of Justice announced that 38-year-old Eddy Reyes admitted to orchestrating his estranged wife’s 2016 kidnapping after suspecting she had an affair. The victim — identified as 21-year-old Claudia Sanchez Reyes — […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A powerful Haitian gang leader has been charged by U.S. prosecutors with ordering the kidnapping of an American couple from their home in Haiti that left the woman dead, authorities said Tuesday. Vitel’homme Innocent — who remains at large and is believed to be living in Tabarre, Haiti — is accused of […]
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Count me among those who feel duped by Carlee Russell. Carlee Russell has admitted to lying about seeing a toddler along a highway in Alabama and being abducted earlier this month. Courtesy Hoover Police Department/TNS The Alabama woman – who claimed she tried to help a toddler on a highway before disappearing, only to resurface two days later saying […]
BY MIRIAM ZARRIGA Papua New Guinea police will be able to use lethal force to deal with crimes that come under Domestic Terrorism through the amendments to the Criminal Code Act. Police Commissioner David Manning said this as the Constabulary continue to work for stronger law enforcement powers to fight against domestic terrorists causing havoc […]
(CNN) A US citizen of Iranian descent living in California was sentenced to four years in prison Friday for crimes related to the attempted kidnapping plot of Masih Alinejad, a New York-based journalist and human rights activist, according to federal court documents. Niloufar Bahadorifar, 48, pleaded guilty in December for conspiring to violate the International […]
The kidnapping of four Black Americans — and the killing of two of them — in the northern Mexico border city of Matamoros has sparked fear among Black migrants and raised concerns among aid workers who say Black asylum-seekers have long been targeted by drug cartels. For years, Felicia Rangel-Samponaro has provided food, books and […]
When two Americans ended up dead, and two others kidnapped, amid a shootout just south of the U.S.-Mexico border, the initial questions were myriad: What happened? Who killed them? And what was the group of four people from South Carolina doing in a minivan in Matamoros? On the last point, an explanation from relatives quickly emerged. […]
The kidnapping of four Black Americans — and the killing of two of them — in the northern Mexico border city of Matamoros has sparked fear among Black migrants and raised concerns among aid workers who say Black asylum-seekers have long been targeted by drug cartels. For years, Felicia Rangel-Samponaro has provided food, books and […]
WASHINGTON — The kidnapping of four Americans — and killing of two of them — has amplified calls from some Texas Republicans to green light military force against drug cartels with the same legal approach used to hunt down terrorists after the Sept. 11 attacks. Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has responded angrily to […]