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• Alleged kidnapper in court

  May 9, 2012 12:24 PM

  The man accused of kidnapping a young Pueblo girl as she left school last January is in court today for a preliminary hearing on kidnapping and sexual assault charges. At this proceeding a judge will listen to the evidence against Jose Garcia and determine if there is enough to... more »

• Search continues for two girls, after mother and sister found dead

  May 9, 2012 8:34 AM

  GUNTOWN, Miss. (AP) - Heavily-armed FBI agents and authorities from Mississippi and Tennessee are expected to resume searching woods and back roads Wednesday for what they said was a dangerous man suspected of killing a Tennessee woman and her teenage daughter and fleeing with her two younger girls. Meanwhile, a... more »

• Trial opens in California for alleged drug gang members

  February 22, 2012 5:49 PM

  SAN DIEGO (AP) - Two members of a breakaway Mexican drug gang dissolved their victims' corpses in vats of acid in a gruesome display of Mexican cartel tactics played out on U.S. soil, a prosecutor told jurors Wednesday. The defendants held two kidnap victims for weeks in the bedroom of... more »

• Kidnapped woman pops trunk and calls police

  April 14, 2011 6:27 PM

  DENVER (AP) - Police say a man suspected of kidnapping a woman at a Denver shopping mall and stealing her car is in custody. KMGH-TV reported that a woman at the Cherry Creek Mall was forced into the trunk of her car at gunpoint Wednesday. A few blocks away, the... more »

• Man arrested in Highway 50 stop

  March 17, 2011 5:09 PM

  Several law enforcement agencies coordinated this morning to stop a car officers believed might have a kidnap victim inside. A probation officer had received a tip that a woman might have been abducted at knife point by Brandon Atencio, 24. Atencio's car was forced off the road and searched... more »

• Charges dismissed against accused kidnapper; woman still missing

  March 3, 2011 9:24 PM

  Angelica Sandoval vanished a week before she was supposed to testify against a man accused of kidnapping her. Now charges against the suspect have been dismissed. But there are still no signs of the missing Alamosa woman. Sandoval, 21, disappeared last week while getting laundry from her car in... more »

• Elizabeth Smart's alleged kidnapper to claim insanity

  July 2, 2010 12:05 PM

  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - The man charged in the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart will seek an insanity defense. Brian David Mitchell's lawyer filed the notice in federal court in Salt Lake City on Thursday. Defense attorney Robert Steele says he will call psychologists to testify at Mitchell's trial... more »

• $20 million settlement for kidnapped girl

  July 1, 2010 1:37 PM

  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California lawmakers have approved a $20 million settlement with the family of Jaycee Dugard, who was kidnapped as a girl and held captive for 18 years by a paroled sex offender. Lawmakers approved the settlement Thursday with a 30-1 vote in the Senate and a... more »

• Dugard has no interest in biological father

  June 16, 2010 1:15 PM

  Jaycee Dugard, who resurfaced last year after being kidnapped 18 years ago, says she has no interest in having a relationship with the man who claims to be her biological father. In a statement released Wednesday, spokeswoman Nancy Seltzer says the 30-year-old Dugard does not wish to see Kenneth... more »

• Springs kidnap suspect claims mental illness

  April 20, 2010 12:02 PM

  A 27 year-old man suspected of kidnapping a woman and two children in Colorado pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to several charges he's facing in Wyoming following a car chase that ended with police finding the victims safe. Al Demetrius Johnson faces nine misdemeanor charges in Natrona County,... more »

• Update: kidnapping suspect now in custody

  April 16, 2010 10:43 AM

  Update: Colorado Springs Police say the suspect in a kidnapping case has been arrested in Wyoming. Al Johnson was taken into custody, after a short vehicle pursuit with Wyoming State Patrol. Investigators say Jaime Johnson and two of the couple's three children were also in the vehicle. They suffered... more »

• Man sentenced for kidnapping and assault

  February 17, 2010 6:54 PM

  A man convicted of assault. robbery and kidnapping was sentenced Wednesday to 63 and a half years in prison. Timothy Clapp knocked 59-year-old Garnett Wright unconscious in the parking lot of a Colorado Springs Target. He tied her up, but she was later able to escape and call police. ... more »

• Lawyer: Woman will enter guilty plea in Smart case

  November 17, 2009 8:00 AM

  Seven years after it began, the wrenching saga of Elizabeth Smart's kidnapping is expected to move toward a resolution today. One of the two defendants in the case is expected to plead guilty. Her attorney says Wanda Eileen Barzee will enter the plea on charges of kidnapping and unlawful... more »