Kidnapping

San Diego police issued an Amber Alert on Tuesday in connection to the abduction of a 2-year-old girl.

San Diego police issued an Amber Alert after a toddler was abducted by her father.

A 36-year-old man was arrested Monday morning at a rest stop north of Camp Pendleton on suspicion of kidnapping a woman he had taken on a date in Orange County, authorities said.

A couple was arrested last week and accused of collecting payments in a kidnap for ransom scheme that left a San Diego man and a Norwalk man dead in Tijuana, Mexico.

A Washington state woman and her 16-year-old daughter were arrested Friday afternoon after the woman allegedly posed as a baby photographer and drugged a mother in an attempt to steal her newborn, NBC News reports.

An 11-year-old girl abducted in Springfield was found safe and her alleged kidnapper arrested Wednesday evening after an Amber Alert was issued amid an hourslong search, Massachusetts State Police said.

San Jose police, with the help of a security guard, arrested a 70-year-old man this week on suspicion of kidnapping and molesting a 13-year-old girl, according to the police department.

A kidnapping victim was found safe and a suspect has been arrested after Las Vegas police released security camera footage of a woman being taken by the suspect.

A 16-year-old girl was grabbed off a Bronx street right in front of her mother Monday night — and police are investigating the case as a possible kidnapping, authorities say. An Amber Alert was issued at 10 a.m. Tuesday.

Body camera footage released Tuesday shows the tense moments a Utah state trooper spotted a kidnapping suspect’s van on Interstate 15 in Cedar City, where the lawman conducted a traffic stop and encountered the suspect, two other adults, and the victims.

A man has been sentenced to life in prison without chance of parole for killing a witness to a California shooting — a woman whose children were later kidnapped and abandoned.

A U.S. citizen has been charged with kidnapping and other counts for his alleged role in the abduction of a freelance journalist who was held hostage in Somalia for nearly three years, according to federal charging documents unsealed Thursday in New York. According to a criminal complaint, Abdi Yusuf Hassan was part of a conspiracy to kidnap the journalist in...

A New Hampshire man faced a judge on Monday after he allegedly offered a young teen’s parents cash to “buy” their daughter before trying to drag her away at a popular tourist area in Boston on Sunday.

San Diego police say a man tried to kidnap a 13-year-old girl walking home from school in Otay Mesa West on Tuesday.

NBC 7’s Dave Summers spoke to the victim’s uncle and also heard from parents in the neighborhood.

Parents are planning to keep a closer watch on their children this school year after the Poway Unified School District alerted them of a possible attempted abduction last week.

A group of men in a van tried to grab two boys in Poway last week. NBC 7’s Omari Fleming reports.

A Santa Barbara County woman who was allegedly kidnapped by her ex-boyfriend was found safe Monday night in Nevada.

Los Angeles County authorities say two juveniles found in a car with guns and live ammunition told authorities they were attempting to take part in a kidnapping prank.