A Jeanette, Pennsylvania woman is facing charges after reportedly faking her own disappearance.
At around 10:30 PM on May 1, a 23-year-old woman who works at Sonic left at the end of her work shift and drove home one of her coworkers in her Volkswagen Beetle.
According to reports, when the woman was on her way to her home, she sent a text message to her boyfriend telling him that she was being pulled over by the police. She mentioned that she was unsure about why it was happening.
A man who rode in an Uber in Maryland is facing charges after allegedly physically and verbally abusing the driver.
Just before 4:00 PM on April 21, an Uber driver in a 2012 Hyundai Accent picked up a male passenger. The man wanted a ride to Baltimore City, but he asked the driver to make a few stops before they headed for the destination.
The man sat in the front passenger seat for the ride, and he reportedly began smoking what was believed to be narcotics. He also allegedly struck the driver in the head several times while they were on the road.
After four people reportedly asked a man to join them at a residence for food and narcotics, they allegedly tied him up and tortured, assaulted, and waterboarded him.
On March 22, a man was invited by someone he knew to spend time eating and doing heroin with them at a home in South Bend, Indiana.
He accepted the invitation, and when he arrived, four people reportedly grabbed him and forced him into the basement. It was reported that two of them had guns. They allegedly used rope to tie him up before adding chains to help hold him in place.
59-year-old Peter Anthony McGuire lives in Chino Hills, California.
Towards the beginning of the year, McGuire had a 22-year-old woman move into his home as his roommate.
39-year-old James Larson Jr. was released from an 8-year prison term approximately two weeks ago. Since he was freed from the Oklahoma facility, Larson Jr. has been living at his father’s home in Lake Arrowhead, Missouri.
During the second week of May, Larson Jr. was using a dating app when he made the acquaintance of a 31-year-old woman from Kansas City.
According to reports, Larson Jr. invited the woman to come to his home for a visit. It is believed that she arrived on May 12.
A woman and her wife allegedly abducted her biological children in Missouri and took them to Arizona without permission.
Brittany Barnes is married to Ceairah Beverly. Barnes has three biological sons, ages 8, 9, and 10, of whom she does not have custody. According to reports, she lost custody of the children at the beginning of the year due to a few legal issues that she is currently dealing with.
On the morning of March 23, Barnes showed up at the Springfield, Missouri home of her children’s paternal grandmother, who currently has physical custody of the boys. Barnes retrieved her sons for an unsupervised visit.
Six people have been arrested for allegedly keeping a woman they met online captive for almost a week and forcing her to endure horrific forms of torture and abuse.
Last November, a woman from Maine moved to Athens, Texas, to live with six individuals. It was reported that the woman became acquainted with the people online.
When the woman decided that she wanted to move out of the residence, her roommates reportedly went to immense lengths to keep her from leaving.
A man is facing many charges after he was accused of imprisoning his girlfriend and torturing her for a month until she was able to free herself.
29-year-old Saul Ortega resides in Modesto, California. He recently reportedly started a relationship with a 25-year-old woman that also lives in Modesto.
Last Saturday, the woman notified the authorities and said that she had been kidnapped by Ortega and held for about a month. She reported that she was able to escape.
A couple in Palmdale allegedly kidnapped a child, and the woman and youngster remained barricaded in the apartment for nearly a full day while she streamed a live feed of the event on the internet.
Around 5:00 pm on October 21, deputies from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and Special Enforcement Bureau learned that a man and woman were in a Palmdale apartment with a child they allegedly kidnapped.
The authorities went to the apartment complex, and they reported that when they arrived, they found that the suspects were inside a unit on the second floor. They had reportedly barricaded themselves and the child in the apartment.
A Florida man was accused of armed kidnapping after he allegedly terrorized a woman he knew and threatened her with a blade.
On September 21, 27-year-old Sir Dangerous Lashawd London was at the Briarcrest Apartments in Winter Haven. The man was reportedly there with a woman that he knew, and she had two cars parked at the complex.
The pair reportedly got into a verbal altercation, and London allegedly snatched the woman’s car keys.
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