Kidnapping

Fugitive hairdresser jailed for kidnap plot

JUSTICE has finally caught up with a man who went on the run for seven years after being involved in a kidnap plot. Hairdresser Anjum Manzoor made a new life for himself with a wife and three young children in Birmingham after...

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Cops: Shaniya Davis Murdered Day of Kidnap

An image made from surveillance video shows a man carrying 5-year old Shaniya Davis in the hallway of a hotel in Sanford, NC. Davis was spotted in Sanford with a man identified as Mario Andrette McNeill, said Fayetteville...

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Al-Qaeda Seizes Japan Hostage in Yemen: Tribal Source

SANAA (AFP) – Al-Qaeda gunmen have seized a Japanese engineer from his tribal kidnappers in Yemen, a tribal source who has been seeking to negotiate his release said on Saturday. "The hostage was seized

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British hostages say pirates will kill them

A British couple kidnapped from their yacht in October by pirates pleaded for their life in a video broadcast on Britain's Channel 4 Friday, warning that their captors were running out of patience and could kill them if no...

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Man given two life sentences plus 99 years for kidnapping couple

Posted Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 A 56-year-old Oklahoma man has received two life sentences plus 99 years for his role in kidnapping a Springtown couple during a botched plan to rob a Springtown bank in 2007. A Parker County jury...

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Wyo. ex-trooper gets prison term

The man set out to kill in a scheme for money, prosecutors say. By Ben Neary The Associated Press CHEYENNE — A former Wyoming state trooper was sentenced Friday to 15 years in prison for kidnapping a truck driver in what...

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Police seek at least 5 young suspects in gunpoint kidnappings, extortion

At least five young people, including a 17-year-old girl, are being hunted by Toronto police after two unusually violent kidnapping incidents in the northwest of the city last week in which a trio of low-level drug dealers were...

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Judge rejects consensual rough sex claim

An Edmonton man has been convicted of kidnapping a stranger at knifepoint, tying her up in her apartment and raping her. In a decision yesterday, Court of Queen's Bench Justice Denny Thomas found Philip Skulnec, 30, guilty of...

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Suspect's DNA sat in lab as rapes multiplied

The San Francisco police evidence lab failed to process DNA samples from the 2007 slaying of a transgender prostitute for two years, leaving the suspect free allegedly to rape and brutalize at least three other transgender...

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Attorney: Nashville police unfair to kidnapped baby's parents

By Travis Loller • ASSOCIATED PRESS • November 21, 2009 An attorney for a woman whose 4-day-old baby was kidnapped is accusing Metro police of trying to portray the mother and her husband as criminals. On Friday, attorney...

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