Kidnapping

Local law enforcement initially pulled the 16-year-old captor over on Wednesday morning for using a cellphone while driving.

"She knew he was about to kill her," the victim's sister told local news outlets.

A man is being sought by police after his partner was found dead in the back of a car in Tijuana and their 7-month-old baby daughter missing.

Authorities believe the 31-year-old prime suspect snatched the infant to pass off as her own so her partner would not ditch her.

The officer's conduct at the sensitive crime scene raised concerns with an FBI agent who was also present.

Since Russia's invasion began, Ukrainian officials have accused Moscow of forcibly kidnapping its people.

Bystanders were shocked the attempted abduction occurred in "broad daylight."

Keith Papini has filed for divorce after his wife confessed to staging her own abduction nearly six years ago in a case that drew national attention.

"The victim was only able to convince the males to let her leave the car after saying that her cousin was following the car," the warrant said.

Five years after she claimed she was kidnapped and abused, Sherri Papini formally entered her guilty plea and confessed it was all a lie.

"I am deeply ashamed of myself for my behavior and so sorry for the pain I've caused my family," Sherri Papini said.

Jurors found two men not guilty of a plot to kidnap the Michigan governor and a mistrial was declared regarding the two others.

U.S. District Judge Robert Jonker told jurors to "find a good distraction" and return "fresh" on Tuesday after the first day of deliberations finished with no verdict.

Police have arrested the female driver suspected in the kidnapping and say she could face charges including traffic homicide.

Irion was last seen in her car at around 5 a.m. March 12 at a Walmart parking lot in Fernley, Nevada.

Irion was last seen in early March at a Walmart parking lot in Fernley, Nevada.

"I believe all it's going to take is one state to burn...and hang a governor and the dominoes will start falling," an FBI agent said the man wrote on Facebook.

A man accused of planning to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer allegedly said he'd be "mounting a machine gun" to a truck to combat her security detail.

"In my opinion, we would be bound to die," one of he thirteen men charged with plotting to snatch the governor testified.

Beer and chicken wings were used to help bring the men into custody, according testimony in court.

The suspect, identified as James Harman II, was arrested at the scene and is facing a minimum of seven years and six months in prison if found guilty.

"We want her flex-cuffed on a table while we all pose and get our pictures taken like we just made the biggest drug bust...in history," a suspect said.

The woman allegedly met the victim on Instagram and demanded a $100,000 ransom on a FaceTime call with the victim's brother.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko, a former world heavyweight boxing champion, said that any Russian troops hoping to kidnap him would find that it was "not easy."

It comes days after Ukraine said the Mayor of Melitopol had also been captured. Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba accused Russian forces of a "turn to terror."

"The actions of Russian invaders will be equated with the actions of ISIS terrorists," the Ukrainian president said.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan Roth said that the four men "would shoot, blow up and kill anybody who got in their way" of kidnapping Gretchen Whitmer.

The judge denied a motion requesting that the case be thrown out and said the FBI's actions did not "escalate" the alleged kidnapping plot.

Paislee Shultis, who was found on Monday, had been missing since July 2019 when she was 4 years old.

As part of a plea deal in a federal court filing obtained by Newsweek on Monday, group member Kaleb Franks will plead guilty to kidnapping conspiracy.