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New details have been released amid the investigation into an attempted kidnapping that happened Monday in the parking lot of a Walmart in Orlando. Juan Perez was arrested and charged with armed robbery with a deadly weapon, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, battery, and attempted kidnapping with intent to inflict harm after the incident that unfolded at the Walmart on South Goldenrod Road on Monday afternoon, according to the Orlando Police Department. The 54-year-old man was caught on surveillance footage pacing around the parking lot before approaching the victim, police said. Perez allegedly demanded the woman's purse at knifepoint...

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...

Authorities believe they've found the body of a Homestead woman who had gone missing after her carjacking at gunpoint in central Florida was caught on camera, and are searching for the suspects involved in her killing. Katherine Altagracia Guerrero De Aguasvias was abducted Thursday after a witness recorded an armed suspect pointing a weapon at her at an intersection in Winter Springs, Seminole County Sheriff's Office officials said. The 31-year-old woman had left Homestead earlier in the day and drove north in a white Dodge Durango until she reached Seminole County. As she was driving, a green Acura rammed into...

GILLESPIE COUNTY, Texas - Deputies are investigating after a woman called to report that she was kidnapped and drugged and had shot someone in Gillespie County. On March 15, around 12:42 p.m., deputies tracked the woman down near a winery in the 10800 block of East US Highway 290, where they say she described the vehicle and the weapon used. A deputy found the vehicle in the outside lane of westbound traffic and found a man dead in the front-seat area. An investigator interviewed the woman at the local hospital while deputies gathered evidence. Police identified the dead man as...

In a fiery exchange last month, CNN anchorwoman Abby Phillip told GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy that there was “no evidence” to support his claim that federal agents abetted protesters at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.Ramaswamy shot back that the FBI conspicuously has never denied that law enforcement agents were on duty in the crowd. He argued that federal officials have repeatedly “lied” to the American people about not only that investigation but one that has gotten much less attention: the alleged failed plot to kidnap and kill Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan in 2020.“It was entrapment,” Ramaswamy...

Hamas international relations chief said the terrorist group’s plan was never to target civilians when its forces invaded Israel on October 7. Instead he expressed surprise at the human toll exacted by the invading forces as they embarked on mass rape, torture, kidnapping, and slaughter of Israeli innocents. “The chief commander of the Al Qassem Brigade, who initiated the operation, he gave clear instructions not to target civilians or not to harm civilians,” Dr Basem Naim told Australia’s ABC 7.30 report during an interview.

The documents were turned over to NBC by Israeli first responders. American news broadcaster NBC published documents on Saturday recovered from Hamas terrorists killed in southern Israel that show detailed plans to target children and young people from Sa'ad, a religious kibbutz in the Negev desert. The documents included everything from maps specifying the location of kindergartens and schools, plans for how many to kill and take hostage, as well as detailed escape plans. Although schools in Israel are closed on Saturdays, many Israeli children play in the basketball or soccer courts at the schools. The documents labeled "top secret"...

Charlotte Sena, the 9-year-old girl who went missing last weekend while on a bike ride at an upstate New York park, has been found, police announced Monday evening. "Charlotte Sena has been located and in good health. A suspect is in custody," New York State Police said in a statement. "This is still an active investigation." New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said at a Monday night news conference that the case started to break around 4:20 a.m. Monday morning, when a car pulled up to the mailbox at the family’s home and left what turned out to be a ransom...

“Overzealous” legal backlash over the Carlee Russell kidnapping hoax came only because a Black woman was at the center of it, The Atlantic writer Jemele Hill tweeted. After it was found that Russell, a 24-year-old nursing student, had fabricated the story of her abduction, police officers filed two misdemeanor charges against the Alabama woman. State lawmakers are also seeking to increase the penalties for faking a kidnapping. Through her X (formerly known as Twitter) account, Hill called these efforts “overzealous” actions taken because of Russell’s race, claiming the same thing would not have happened if she was White.

Prosecutors in Alabama are considering charging Carlee Russell with two crimes that could land her behind bars for a year if convicted of faking her disappearance when she went missing for two days. Russell could be charged with falsely reporting an incident and false reporting to law enforcement authorities, Jefferson County Chief Assistant DA Lane Tolbert told ABC News. The class A misdemeanors ​are punishable by up to one year in jail, he said. “We advise what we think the charges should be,” Tolbert told the outlet, adding that any criminal charges would be filed by the circuit clerk of...

Luke 23:28 But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. The Disney delayed movie with Jim Caviezel, The Sound of Freedom puts all the pieces together of what the Death Cult really stands for. They and its exposure of the extremely lucrative and evil business of child slavery is as low as it goes and exactly what the Democrat Party stands for. It is from the deepest recesses of Satanic worship. This movie should be seen by everyone who has a heart for children. It begins with...

Four U.S. citizens who were kidnapped in Mexico by the notorious criminal and drug syndicate Gulf Cartel have lengthy criminal rap sheets. Latavia McGee, Eric Williams, Zindell Brown and Shaeed Woodard traveled to the U.S.-Mexico border town Matamoros on Friday when they were caught in crossfire and abducted. Brown and Woodard didn't survive. DailyMail.com can reveal that Williams was previously busted for 'distributing crack near a school,' while McGee has been slapped with 'unlawful conduct towards a child,' when her daughter tested positive for amphetamines. Woodard was charged with the 'manufacturing and possession' of drugs and pleaded guilty, while Brown...

Police have arrested a man on suspicion of attempting to abduct a bikini-clad barista through a drive-thru window. The suspect, who has not been publicly identified, was arrested at 11am on Tuesday, at his home in Auburn, Washington. Investigators were able to search his vehicle and found evidence linking him to the scene, as well as spotting his unique 'Chevrolet’ tattoo on his left forearm. The driver of the Chevy Silverado will remain in police custody and has yet to be officially charged with anything. Auburn Police Department spokesperson Kolby Crossley said: 'They are in vulnerable positions because they’re usually...

One of the ringleaders in a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was sentenced to more than 19 years behind bars Wednesday — a day after an accomplice was slapped with a 16-year prison term, federal prosecutors said. Barry Croft Jr., 47, was handed the 19½-year sentence by Michigan federal Judge Robert Jonker four months after his conviction for conspiring to kidnap the Democratic governor from her Elk Rapids vacation cottage in 2020. Croft, a trucker from Delaware, was the fourth and final defendant in the plot to learn his fate. The judge described him as “the idea guy”...

Investigators in California are working to determine the motive behind the killing of a family of four – including an 8-month-old baby – as the bodies were recovered Wednesday in a rural farm area after they were kidnapped earlier this week by an armed man at their business.

Authorities say they have found a body near where Eliza Fletcher was abducted while jogging in Memphis last week. The Memphis Police Department said officers in the 1600 block of Victor located a "deceased party" just after 5 p.m.

The FBI has made a complete mess of that supposed kidnap plot, because it was their own.With the raid on Mar-A-Lago developing into a bigger and bigger PR problem for the DOJ and the FBI, there might in fact be a benefit to it as well. It could serve as a distraction away from another mess they have created. Recently, I was a guest host for the Pete Kaliner show and at one point I covered the Senate hearing taking place with FBI director Christopher Wray. One aspect I mentioned that day was how the head of the Detroit field...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Two men accused of plotting to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer have asked a judge to acquit them after jurors earlier this month could not reach unanimous verdicts, resulting in mistrials. Barry Croft Jr., 46, of Bear, Delaware, and Adam Fox, 38, of Wyoming, have filed motions for acquittal. Two others, Daniel Harris, 24, of Lake Orion, and Brandon Caserta, 34, of Canton, were acquitted April 8 by a jury in U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids. Attorneys for Croft and Fox asked Chief U.S. District Judge Robert Jonker to acquit the two. During the trial, the...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. – A federal prosecutor withdrew Tuesday from the case of a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, days after two men were acquitted and the jury couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict for two more. Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan Roth notified the judge in a brief court filing. He's not required to give a reason. ... Roth was one of two prosecutors at the high-profile trial of Adam Fox, Barry Croft Jr., Daniel Harris and Brandon Caserta. He gave the opening statement, saying the men wanted to kidnap Whitmer and create a “war zone here in Michigan,”...

In a shocking defeat for prosecutors, the Whitmer trial in Michigan ends with zero convictions. Was the plot a legitimate plan or FBI entrapment