All posts tagged "Kidnapping"

A MAGA city council member in Arizona and former Turning Point USA employee has been accused of offering an employee a job in exchange for sex and kidnapping his daughter.

A lawsuit, which was filed by two anonymous plaintiffs — Father John Doe and Minor Jane Doe — filed on Nov. 14 names Jeannette Garcia, a MAGA council member in Avondale, Arizona, of "drunkenly propositioning a male coworker to have sex and, when he rebuffed her, briefly kidnapping his 14-year-old daughter," according to a report from The Phoenix New Times.

Garcia has faced backlash in the past over calling Hollywood star Tom Hanks a "pedo" on X and later said she was trying to use the Spanish word for "fart." The city council reportedly voted to condemn her comment. ...

Police have said they were able to rescue a kidnapping victim from the back of a U-Haul truck following a traffic stop.

Authorities arrested Dennis Bell after they received multiple calls about a U-Haul truck that had been "driving erratically and striking multiple parked vehicles," according to a press release from the Maryland State Police.

"Bell faces 14 criminal charges including first degree assault, kidnapping, false imprisonment, fourth degree sex offense, possession of suspected crack cocaine and driving while impaired," police said. "Bell is also facing 19 traffic charges related to the incident. Bell is currently being held at the Upper Marlboro Department of Corrections."...

MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) - Kenyan coastguards were locked in a high-seas standoff on Saturday with gunmen holding a disabled French woman hostage and the abductors fired warning shots in the air, a government minister said.

BAGHDAD — An Iraqi court handed down a 15-year jail term on Saturday to a man it convicted of taking part in the abduction of a British journalist in 2008, a judiciary spokesman said.