United States Marshals Service’s multi-state operation locates 225 missing children

United States Marshals Service’s multi-state operation locates 225 missing children

The United States Marshals Service (USMS), with the help of state and local agencies, located 225 missing children during a 10-week operation in states across the nation, the agency said. The multi-state operation, dubbed operation “We Will Find You,” was a national effort to locate the missing children. According to a press release from the USMS, many of the…

Migrants’ fingers, ears cut off if they can’t pay cartels: report

Migrants’ fingers, ears cut off if they can’t pay cartels: report

Migrants waiting to get into the US who don’t have money to pay cartels’ ransoms can get fingers and ears chopped off, a shelter volunteer working near a Texas border city has claimed. The revelation reported by NBC News highlighted the dangers faced by migrants on the border, who have decided against crossing into the…

Texas woman claims to be Chicago child Diamond Bradley who vanished 20 years ago

Texas woman claims to be Chicago child Diamond Bradley who vanished 20 years ago

A Texas woman has claimed in a surfaced video that she is a missing Chicago toddler that disappeared over two decades ago. Diamond Bradley was 3 years old when she and her 10-year-old sister, Tionda, were reported missing to the Chicago Police on July 6, 2001 while their mother was working. When the girls’ mother,…

Michigan teen who used slingshot to save sister says he ‘was just lucky’

Michigan teen who used slingshot to save sister says he ‘was just lucky’

A 13-year-old Michigan boy who used a slingshot to save his 8-year-old sister from an attempted kidnapping said he was “freaking out” and simply reached for something that could stop the attack. “So I grab my slingshot and open the window and I grab two things — a marble and a gravel rock or something,” Owen Burns told…

California mom Katie Sorensen convicted of lying about children’s kidnapping

California mom Katie Sorensen convicted of lying about children’s kidnapping

A California “momfluencer” was convicted for making up a story of how her children were nearly kidnapped by a Latino couple. Katie Sorensen, 31, was found guilty on one count of making a false report of a crime Thursday and faces up to six months in jail. “This verdict will enable us to hold Ms….

Woman kidnapped off NYC street and whisked away in minivan

Woman kidnapped off NYC street and whisked away in minivan

An unidentified woman was abducted on a Brooklyn street and whisked away in a minivan, police said. The shocking incident occurred Friday at around 1:45 a.m. at the intersection of Avenue W and Stillwell Avenue in Gravesend, authorities said. A man appeared to approach the woman with his arm pointed at her before grabbing the…

Mexico kidnapping survivors LaTavia Washington McGee, Eric Williams break silence

Mexico kidnapping survivors LaTavia Washington McGee, Eric Williams break silence

The Americans who survived a violent abduction at gunpoint by a Mexican drug cartel thought help would never come after their two friends were killed and the group was abandoned at a dingy wooden shack. Over a month after the horrifying, broad-daylight attack, LaTavia Washington McGee and Eric Williams spoke with CNN about losing their…

Florida couple reportedly kidnapped in Haiti; State Dept ‘aware of reports of 2 US citizens missing’

Florida couple reportedly kidnapped in Haiti; State Dept ‘aware of reports of 2 US citizens missing’

The family of a Florida couple missing in Haiti says the two American citizens were ordered off of a bus and kidnapped in the Caribbean nation a week and a day ago.  Relatives of Jean-Dickens Toussaint and his wife, Abigail Toussaint, both 33, say they already paid $6,000 in ransom, but now the alleged kidnapers are demanding…

Texas authorities warn against travel to Mexico

Texas authorities warn against travel to Mexico

Texas authorities are warning Americans, especially those planning spring break trips, to avoid Mexico after the recent uptick in violence that left two dead. “Drug cartel violence and other criminal activity represent a significant safety threat to anyone who crosses into Mexico right now,” Steven McCraw, the director of the Texas Department of Public Safety,…

Mexican authorities find Washington state 8-year-old missing since 2018, returned to US

Mexican authorities find Washington state 8-year-old missing since 2018, returned to US

A Washington state 8-year-old missing since 2018 was recently found in Mexico and returned to the US, according to the FBI. Aranza Maria Ochoa Lopez was kidnapped by her biological mother on Oct. 25, 2018, at a Vancouver, Washington, shopping mall, according to the FBI. She was found and safely recovered by Mexican authorities in February in…

Volkswagen refused to help cops track down stolen car carrying kidnapped toddler

Volkswagen refused to help cops track down stolen car carrying kidnapped toddler

Volkswagen refused to help police locate a stolen SUV with a toddler trapped in the back until they were given an unpaid fee for use of the vehicle’s tracking device, Illinois cops said. The car company has since admitted to a “serious breach of process” for the refusal to help cops, who said the foot…

Colorado Walmart kidnapping stopped by bystanders

Colorado Walmart kidnapping stopped by bystanders

Brave bystanders lept into action Thursday to stop a woman from kidnapping a child from a Colorado Walmart, police said. Shoppers restrained alleged kidnapper Kimberli Jones, 50, until police arrived, the city of Alamosa said. Jones allegedly snatched “a young child” from a shopping cart inside a Walmart just before 1 p.m., cops said. Bystanders…

Missing Ohio architect José Gutiérrez and fiancée Daniela Pichardo found dead in Mexico

Missing Ohio architect José Gutiérrez and fiancée Daniela Pichardo found dead in Mexico

An Ohio architect, his fiancée, and two of her relatives who went missing Christmas Day in Mexico have been confirmed dead. The death of José Gutiérrez, who was in Mexico for the holidays visiting his fiancée Daniela Pichardo, was announced Tuesday by his employer Champlin Architecture in a Facebook post. “We will all miss him…