kidnapping

A woman convicted of fatally strangling a pregnant woman, cutting her body open and kidnapping her baby is scheduled to be the first female inmate put to death by the U.S. government in more than six decades.

FBI says Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam was mentioned in a group’s planned kidnapping of Michigan’s governor. Drew Wilder reports.

Members of anti-government paramilitary groups discussed kidnapping Virginia’s governor during a June meeting in Ohio, an FBI agent testified Tuesday during a court hearing for a group of men accused of plotting to abduct Michigan’s governor.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer thanked law enforcement on Thursday for their work in foiling a plot to kidnap her from her vacation home. The governor also accused President Donald Trump of encouraging extremism when he refused to condemn white supremacists during last week’s debate.

The FBI arrested at least six men on Thursday for plotting to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer from her vacation home.

Federal authorities say nearly 40 missing or endangered children have been rescued by federal and state agents in Georgia.

An Atlanta-area mother who attempted to shoot and fight off kidnappers was reunited with her child Saturday after the baby was found unharmed, authorities said.

Deputies arrested a man this weekend who allegedly told them he drove from South Carolina to a home in Central Florida with a plan to kidnap a World Wrestling Entertainment star. NBC affiliate WFLA-TV reports that 24-year-old Phillip Thomas II had been stalking Sonya Deville for several years on social media and drove to her home north of Tampa this…

A couple was arrested last week and accused of collecting payments in a kidnap for ransom scheme that left a San Diego man and a Norwalk man dead in Tijuana, Mexico.

A Washington state woman and her 16-year-old daughter were arrested Friday afternoon after the woman allegedly posed as a baby photographer and drugged a mother in an attempt to steal her newborn, NBC News reports.

An 11-year-old girl abducted in Springfield was found safe and her alleged kidnapper arrested Wednesday evening after an Amber Alert was issued amid an hourslong search, Massachusetts State Police said.

San Jose police, with the help of a security guard, arrested a 70-year-old man this week on suspicion of kidnapping and molesting a 13-year-old girl, according to the police department.

A kidnapping victim was found safe and a suspect has been arrested after Las Vegas police released security camera footage of a woman being taken by the suspect.

Alicia Kozakiewicz was just 13 years old when a man kidnapped her on New Year’s Day 2002, held her captive and sexually abused her for days. He was behind bars for 16 years and then was released to a halfway house — near Kozakiewicz’s family’s home. Now, he’s back in prison until 2021. News4’s Scott MacFarlane spoke with Kozakiewicz herself....

A former high school lacrosse coach from Maryland is accused of conspiring to kidnap a group of children and kill their parents. Walter Johnson High School’s principal sent a note to the community saying former varsity lacrosse coach Gary Blake Reburn was arrested for his role in an attempted murder and kidnapping in Virginia. According to federal court documents,...

A former high school lacrosse coach in Maryland is accused of conspiring to kidnap children and kill their parents. Chris Gordon reports.