Tag: KIDNAPPING

Oh, the hazards of working in the family business. According to reports, Allen Begley got a call from his employer (and father-in-law) Joshua Seal this weekend. After arriving at Seal's Flooring in Kingsport, Tennessee, Begley was allegedly locked in a room, assaulted, and accused of stealing jewelry valued at $245 from a job site. Seal reportedly released Begley -- but only after taking an Xbox ...

A woman accused of kidnapping an infant from a hospital more than 20 years ago has turned herself over to the authorities. The suspect, Ann Pettway, allegedly stole the young girl from a New York hospital back in 1987, and raised her as her own. A warrant was issued for her arrest on Friday, in North Carolina, and she was finally taken into custody on Sunday, in Connecticut. A source told CNN that ...

Facebook is joining forces with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Department of Justice to broadcast Amber Alerts across the social network. Each state will soon have its own Amber Alert page, where concerned users will be able to find the latest updates on children who have gone missing in their areas. The official announcement is expected to come at a press ...

Share A 12-year-old girl in Delaware successfully avoided the clutches of a potential kidnapper last week -- not with fists of fury or a can of mace, but with her iPod. The girl was reportedly approached by the suspected predator in front of a local middle school, where she was waiting for a ride. According to ABC News, the man pulled up next to her in a white van, and bluntly told her to "get ...

As we've reported before, thieves, scammers and other charlatans sometimes find their targets on Twitter and Facebook, especially when the soon-to-be victims post innocent status updates like, "My 18 HDTVs will be so lonely in my unlocked house while I'm on vacation for the next month," veritably inviting criminals to track them down. Now Brazil's favorite crime-sport of kidnapping has been thrown ...

In October 1995, Faustino Utrera disappeared with his two children, who were just toddlers at the time. A few days after the kids vanished, Utrera called their mother, Prince Segala, to tell her that they were in Mexico and that she would never see her son and daughter again. The mother promptly went to the police in San Bernadino County, CA, but to no avail, and it wasn't until she consulted ...

Used to be, back in the golden years of kidnapping, abductors would only demand a ransom in exchange for their victims. Nowadays, though, as the video game generation matures into criminal adulthood, typical demands are becoming a bit more... peculiar. Teenager Kyle Yarkosky, of Florida, claims that a fellow teen named David Daniels and another unnamed suspect abducted him last Monday, held ...

As details steadily emerge concerning a two-decade-old kidnapping case (There will be a press conference Friday afternoon.), the facts surrounding the disappearance of Jaycee Lee Dugard seem to get more and more disturbing. An 11-year-old Dugard disappeared from her California town in the summer of 1991, and remained hidden until Wednesday afternoon. Her suspected kidnapper, Phillip Garrido, ...

In 'Second Life,' players create elaborate avatars and participate in fanciful deeds (and misdeeds), often engaging in virtual romances that rarely survive longer than one of the game's many failed virtual banks. One relationship, though, was apparently a bit more serious -- or so thought North Carolina player Kimberly Jernigan, who attempted multiple real-world kidnappings of her in-game beau ...

As news of violent kidnappings in Mexico continue to proliferate, the Mexican elite are now using technology to fight back. Reuters reports that wealthy Mexicans are spending big money to implant tiny transmitters under their skin so satellites can track them wherever they are (i.e., the trunk of a car). The crystal-encased chips are apparently "the size and shape of a grain of rice" (their ...

Thankfully for a kidnapped 16 year-old girl from Wheatland, Oregon, her captor, 37-year-old David Anthony Faboo, did not take her cell phone. According to the Sacramento Bee, the girl met Faboo via chat-rooms and MySpace. Faboo drove from his home in Hillsboro, Oregon (about an hour away) to meet the girl, then started to take her towards the state line. The girl quickly realized her error and ...