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A Southern California woman who was previously arrested on suspicion of kidnapping a child from a Target store was arrested again Tuesday on similar charges. The suspect was identified as Yara Vanessa Pineda, 27, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. Officers responded to Seoul International Park on the 3200 block of San Marino Street in the Koreatown neighborhood at around 5:14 p.m. Witnesses said Pineda had approached several children at the park and picked them up before letting them go after being confronted by their parents. The woman was reportedly seen fighting with the parents as well. Witnesses recalled...

A man with a 28-page rap sheet who police said “should not have been on the street” was arrested Thursday in the attempted abduction of a 14-year-old girl at a mall in Pennsylvania. Khalilh Evans, 44, is accused of attempting to abduct the teen at the Willow Grove Park Mall after she became separate from her friends while shopping. Abington Detectives identified the suspect and issued a warrant for Evans’ arrest, charging him with false imprisonment of a minor, a second-degree felony. Evans was arrested Thursday with the assistance of the Philadelphia Police Department and the U.S. Marshal’s Office after...

'Putin has STOLEN our Ukrainian children': Distraught parents tell how THOUSANDS of youngsters never returned from 'summer camps' they went to after being rounded up by Russian troops in 'campaign' likened to ISIS abduction of Yazidi girls Ukraine says it has confirmed that more than 16,000 children have been taken Parents have being tricked into allowing their children to attend 'summer camps' Ukrainian parents have shared their heartbreak at not knowing where their children are or if they will ever see them again after Russian forces kidnapped thousands of youngsters and transported them to 're-education camps' in Russia - in...

Photo CCTV footage has emerged which purportedly shows the moment 16-year-old Mohammed Abu-Khder was abducted on Tuesday night from the Arab neighborhood of Beit Hanina in Jerusalem, hours before his dead body was found burned in Jerusalem Forest. The video was obtained by the Daily Telegraph, which said it had been handed the footage by the Abu-Khder family. The British paper said that while Israeli police had obtained film from two nearby cameras showing the abduction from different angles, the family had not handed this film to police yet - although it did not explain why the family would withhold...

Police say a 5-year-old girl is safe after being the victim of an apparent abduction. Relatives of Joceyln Rojas said she is doing "well" after being abducted for more than two hours Thursday. At a news conference Friday morning, investigators said they think a man lured the girl into his car by offering to get her ice cream. Police are checking with ice cream shops in the area.

Military and police officials in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula said on Friday that two U.S. tourists have been abducted by a Bedouin seeking to pressure officials to release his detained relative. Officials told The Associated Press the two Americans, a man and a woman, were taken along with their Egyptian tour guide, in a mountainous region in the center of the peninsula called Sabr el-Hitan. U.S. Embassy spokesman David Lynnfield told AP the embassy was looking into the kidnapping. Security officials say the Bedouin man abducted the tourists to pressure authorities to release his uncle detained in the Egyptian coastal city...

A nine-year-old Israeli girl was nearly abducted from her parents at Disney World, in Orlando, Florida, during the Pesach holiday. Channel 10 news reported that two Israeli parents and their two children were standing in line for one of the rides in the huge theme park when they discovered that their daughter had disappeared. They immediately ran to the park's security officers, who locked all of the park's exit gates. The parents were taken to a control room, where they were asked to look for the girl on the numerous security cameras.

Texas Father Arrested After Minnesota Woman Spots Him With Abducted Son on Vacation in Belize Mar 31, 2004 The Associated Press OAK PARK HEIGHTS, Minn. (AP) - A boy allegedly abducted by his father eight months ago is back home in Texas after a woman vacationing in Belize became suspicious about the father and son she met there. Jake Clenney, 4, was the only child at the hotel, and even though his father was friendly and the boy seemed happy, Barb Quinlan said she felt something was wrong. "Maybe it's motherly instinct; you just kind of know these things," she...

Man Tried To Abduct, Rape 2-Year-Old, Police Say Mother Discovers Man On Top Of Child Posted: 11:10 a.m. EDT August 15, 2002Updated: 1:06 p.m. EDT August 15, 2002 Detroit police are investigating an attempted abduction of a 2-year-old child in the 7300 block of Fielding, near Evergreen and Warren. .RelatedBox .Header {width: 120px; border : none; color: #ffffff; font-family: Verdana; line-height: 13px; font-size: 10px; text-align: center; background: #003366; background-color: #003366;} .RelatedBox .Links {font-size: 10px; line-height: 12px; font-family: Verdana; color: #000000; margin: 3px;} .RelatedBox .Links li {font-size: 10px; line-height: 12px; font-family: Verdana;} <p> Hear What Mother Says She Saw Police say...