kidnapping
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What This Soccer Player Was Doing While His Wife and 5-Year-Old Daughter Were Being Kidnapped Will Boil Your Blood
Jackson Rodríguez's wife and toddler were abducted early Wednesday during a home invasion.
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Hold Up..This Wanted Ohio Man Allegedly Kidnapped The Same Woman Twice?!
Authorities are trying to track down the whereabouts of Quinntel Maurice Bagley.
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Carlee Russell’s Case Shares Eerie Similarities to Well-Known Kidnapping Hoaxes
A press conference from the Hoover Police Department leaves many believing Carlee Russell faked her alleged abduction.
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Cheat Sheet: Held Hostage vs. Wrongfully Detained
President Biden declared Brittney Griner was "wrongfully detained" in Russia. But what does that mean? Why is she not a hostage held by a foreign state?
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2 Louisiana Sanitation Workers Save Kidnapped 10-Year-Old by Blocking Abductor From Escape
Here at The Root, we celebrate Black excellence—a thing that is often equated with Black entrepreneurship and financial success, even though it’s much more than that. Today we shout out Black excellence in the form of heroism. Last Sunday, a 10-year-old girl was abducted from her home in New Iberia, Louisiana. An Amber Alert was…
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Memphis Cop Faces Charges for Kidnapping and Killing Man While on Duty
In case you haven’t said “what the fuck” enough over the past several days, a now-former cop in Memphis is facing charges for kidnapping and killing a man—while on duty. CNN reports that former Memphis Police Officer Patric Ferguson, 29, allegedly forced Robert Howard, 30, into the back of his squad car and drove him…
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Virginia White Supremacist and ‘Child Sex Abuse Advocate’ Accused of Grooming and Kidnapping 12-Year-Old Girl
There are certain criminals in this world who are a potential danger to any and everyone who crosses their path—police in California just arrested what appears to be one of them. A white supremacist from Virginia who ran for office multiple times and is a known child sex abuse advocate has been arrested and is…
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Man Arrested in Connection to Threat to Kidnap the Mayor of Wichita Over Face Mask Ordinance
That’s it: America officially produces the weirdest terrorists. On Friday, police in Wichita, Ks., arrested a man for threatening to kidnap and kill Wichita Mayor Brandon Whipple. In case you’re wondering to yourself, “What egregious acts of oppression are leadership in Wichita imposing on their citizens to prompt such passionate contempt for the city’s mayor?”—don’t…
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More Than a Dozen People Charged in Plot to Kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Overthrow the Government
Man…2020 is officially not one of Michael Bay’s better movies. In today’s episode of Boooooy, You Know These People Ain’t Black, the FBI revealed Thursday that six people have been charged with devising an intricate plot to overthrow the Michigan state government by, among other things, kidnapping Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D). The Detroit News reports…
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Attorney Claims Kenosha Police Officer Who Shot Jacob Blake Was Trying to Prevent a Kidnapping
An attorney for the Kenosha, Wisc., police officer who shot Jacob Blake seven times in the back on Aug. 23 is now claiming that his client shot Blake because he believed the 29-year-old was attempting a kidnapping at the time of the confrontation that led to weeks of protests against police violence. In a recent…