Kidnapping

Police are investigating a kidnapping that happened Thursday in the 2200 block of E. 20th Street in Oakland.

Carlee Russell’s former boyfriend Thomar Latrell Simmons denied knowing about her kidnapping hoax and shut down rumors he was the reason she disappeared over his alleged involvement with a stripper.

He called it “Operation Take Over,” with a list that included a chilling reminder to go after women who wouldn’t be missed to avoid “any kind of an investigation,” according to the FBI.

Amid the ongoing investigation of Carlee Russell’s mysterious disappearance, her boyfriend Thomar Latrell Simmons has spoken out to ask “everyone to stop bullying her” online.

A man accused of kidnapping a 6-year-old at a Miami apartment complex was arrested after the young girl was able to fight him off, police said.

Ring video captured cries for help during what police are calling an attempted kidnapping in Miami Sunday morning.

A prosecutor says a hostage rescue in Houston in which one person was fatally shot on Thursday first began days ago when three migrants were kidnapped from a vehicle in a neighboring county.

The mother of the 13-year-old girl kidnapped and sexually assaulted by a man in North Carolina tracked her daughter’s online activity.

The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for the return of four Americans thought to be kidnapped in an attack in Mexico on Friday.

New Jersey officials claim the woman suffered abuse and isolation at the hands of a man she met as “Brett Parker” last February in New Mexico, nearly on the opposite coast of where she would escape his control one year later.

Blake Gilley, 38, said his children told him that they were instructed not to interact with others. Their mother has been accused of kidnapping.

A man sought in the killings of three people found in a burning Riverside home and killed in a confrontation with sheriff’s deputies in the Mojave Desert town of Needles was identified as a Virginian lawman, authorities said Sunday.

The Flagler County Sheriff’s Office responded to a home on Bunker Lane in Palm Coast, about 60 miles south of Jacksonville, on the evening of Sept. 27 about a report of a possible child abduction, it said in a news release. 

A 48-year-old man suspected of kidnapping and killing a family in Central California used to work for the victims’ trucking business, NBC Bay Area has learned.

A 48-year-old man suspected of kidnapping and killing a family in Central California used to work for the victims’ trucking business. Damian Trujillo reports.

A 48-year-old man suspected of kidnapping and killing a family in Central California used to work for the victims’ trucking business, NBC Bay Area has learned.

Four bodies of a Sikh family kidnapped at gunpoint in Central California were found in a remote orchard Wednesday, the Merced County Sheriff’s Office said. Bob Redell reports.

Four bodies of a Sikh family kidnapped at gunpoint in Central California were found in a remote orchard Wednesday, the Merced County Sheriff’s Office said. Bob Redell reports.

Authorities in California say a kidnapped family of four has been found dead.

Four bodies of a Sikh family kidnapped at gunpoint in Central California were found in a remote orchard Wednesday, the Merced County Sheriff’s Office said.