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 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…
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,…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…
Jeannette Cerecer Ruiz last saw her son Ernesto Garnica Jr. nearly six years ago, hugging him goodbye at the end of celebrating his 23rd birthday with relatives, just across the Mexican border from his home in Brownsville, Texas. His burned-out 2011 Jeep Liberty was found days later on a ranch beside a highway in 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,…
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…
() — The fatal kidnapping of four Americans in Matamoros, which resulted in the deaths of two, highlights the dangers of crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. Nelson Gurrola lives in Mexico, but studies in the states and has to cross from Matamoros, Mexico, to Brownsville, Texas, every day. He has family on both sides of the…
The four US citizens shot at and abducted in Mexico were identified by family members Monday as a group of friends from South Carolina. Latavia “Tay” McGee, Shaeed Woodard, Zindell Brown and Eric James Williams — who remain missing — had traveled to Mexico for a cosmetic medical procedure when they were abducted on Friday,…
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…
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…
A Texas woman was sentenced to 55 years behind bars after pleading guilty to murdering her “best friend” in a depraved scheme to abduct her newborn baby and pass the infant off as her own. Magen Rose Fieramusca, 37, kidnapped and killed her pal Heidi Broussard, 33, in Austin on Dec. 12, 2019, stuffed her…
An infant twin who was found after a kidnapping in Ohio last month has died, according to a report. Little Kyair Thomass died just before midnight Saturday after emergency services received a call of a baby not breathing at a Columbus home, according to a report by NBC, citing local police. The baby was taken…
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…
A Texas man was arrested after allegedly kidnapping a woman he met on a dating app and holding her hostage for five days in his apartment — where he tortured and sexually assaulted her before she managed to escape. Zachary Mills, 21, allegedly picked up the victim on Christmas Eve and drove her to his…