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  • Police: 3 teen girls kidnapped by Salvadoran gang in Houston

    03/10/2017 9:49:12 AM PST · by Brad from Tennessee · 36 replies
    Associated Press ^ | March 10, 2017
    HOUSTON (AP) — Two MS-13 gang members from El Salvador, both in the United States illegally, held three teenage girls against their will and killed one of them in a satanic ritual, authorities in Houston said Friday. Miguel Alvarez-Flores, 22, and Diego Hernandez-Rivera, 18, have been arrested and charged with aggravated kidnapping and murder — both first-degree felonies punishable by up to life imprisonment. Bonds totaling $300,000 have been set for each, but immigration detainers will keep both behind bars. The 15-year-old girl's body was found Feb. 16 with gunshot wounds to the face and chest. Homicide detective Sgt. Chris...
  • Americans Warned Not to Use Dating Apps: What to Know

    06/04/2025 10:16:23 AM PDT · by DallasBiff · 27 replies
    Newsweek ^ | 6/4/25 | Theo Burman and Shane Croucher
    Americans have been warned about the risks posed by dating apps after several kidnappings in Mexico. The U.S. Consulate General Guadalajara said it had confirmed reports of U.S. citizens "kidnapped by individuals the victims met on dating apps in recent months in the Puerto Vallarta and Nuevo Nayarit areas," adding the violence is not limited to one geographic area. "Victims and their family members in the United States have at times been extorted for large sums of money to secure their release," the security alert said.
  • ICE Raids Luxury Homes... Occupied 'Entirely' by Migrants

    05/28/2025 10:48:35 AM PDT · by Morgana · 7 replies
    Cash Jordan youtube ^ | May 28, 2025 | Cash Jordan
    Homeland security has gone about apprehending suspects living in luxury homes (Hollywood Hills and Burbank), some of whom are in america illegally. Journalistic report, including news footage and commentary on current events.
  • NYC crypto trader accused of Italian man’s kidnap, torture threatened to kill his family to get Bitcoin password: prosecutors

    05/24/2025 5:54:03 PM PDT · by mbrfl · 8 replies
    New York Daily News ^ | May 24, 2025 | Rebecca White
    The 37-year-old Crypto trader accused of kidnapping a 28-year-old Italian man inside a luxurious SoHo apartment repeatedly shocked his victim with electric wires, held him upside down from the top of a staircase, cut his leg with a saw and threatened to kill the victim’s family — all to get the password to the man’s Bitcoin account, prosecutors said Saturday. Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Eric Schumacher ordered John Woeltz held without bail on assault and kidnapping charges as police continued to search for his accomplice. He also issued a restraining order against Woeltz, so if he does get out of...
  • Colombian National Sentenced to Over 20 Years in Prison for Role in Conspiracy to Kidnap and Assault U.S. Army Soldiers in Colombia

    05/24/2025 1:45:05 PM PDT · by ransomnote · 6 replies
    justice.gov ^ | May 22, 2025 | US DOJ
    A Colombian national was sentenced today in the Southern District of Florida for her role in kidnapping and assaulting two members of the U.S. military who were on temporary duty in Bogotá, Colombia.Kenny Julieth Uribe Chiran, 35, was sentenced to 262 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $24,115 in restitution. She is the third and final defendant to be sentenced and held accountable for this criminal conspiracy. She pleaded guilty in March 2025 to conspiracy to kidnap an internationally protected person.“Uribe Chiran and her co-defendants mercilessly preyed on U.S. soldiers when they...
  • Moment wealthy 'crypto bros' are dragged out of their stunning NYC mansion for kidnapping and torturing their business partner for WEEKS

    05/24/2025 8:48:45 AM PDT · by dennisw · 43 replies
    DAILYMAIL.COM ^ | 24 May 2025 | By KELLY GARINO FOR
    A gang of wealthy 'crypto bros' have been arrested for luring their former business partner to a stunning New York City mansion before torturing him for weeks. The group are accused of kidnapping the 28-year-old Italian man before committing sickening acts on him in the $75,000-per-month rented brownstone in Soho. They alleged to have Tazed him, pistol-whipped him and threatened to carve him up with a chainsaw if he did not give up the millions of dollars in his crypto account. But their plot was foiled when the victim - who has not been named - escaped and flagged down...
  • Venezuela: Maduro's regime kidnaps Freddy Superlano, leader of Leopoldo López's party

    07/31/2024 6:32:53 AM PDT · by lowbridge · 24 replies
    voz.us ^ | July 30, 2024
    The Venezuelan Human Rights Education-Action Program reported that the regime of dictator Nicolás Maduro's kidnapped Freddy Superlano, leader of the Voluntad Popular party founded by Leopoldo López. "These detainments can lead to forced disappearances and cruel and inhumane treatment to force the victims to make statements, as has been denounced in the past by the UN Mission on Venezuela," Provea wrote on its account on the social network X. The organization published a video on social networks showing how several hooded men put Superlano in a van. According to the information, three other opposition leaders were also kidnapped. Meanwhile, Voluntad...
  • Hamas to Release Some Foreign Captives in Coming Days

    05/03/2025 5:34:52 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 12 replies
    Channel News Asia ^ | 04 May 2025
    Hamas has told mediators it will release a number of foreign captives in the coming days, Abu Ubaida, the spokesman of the group's armed wing, al-Qassam Brigades, said in a video on its Telegram account on Tuesday (May 3). The Brigades spokesman did not give more details on the number of captives or their nationalities. He also said his group clashed with the Israeli army on three fronts and was able to "kill and injure a number of Israeli soldiers" as well as destroy 22 military vehicles. The unit's navy also used an underwater missile called 'Aasif' for the first...
  • Raskin: Trump Administration Officials Could Be Arrested for Kidnaping

    04/26/2025 8:20:27 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 53 replies
    Breitbart ^ | April 26th 2025 | Pam Key
    Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) claimed Friday on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show” that Trump administration officials could be arrested for “interfering with a legal proceeding” or “kidnapping.” Raskin said, “I regard it very much within the prism of what we’ve been dealing with over the last month, which is an intense assault on judicial independence. They have been disobeying federal court orders systematically. They have incurred criminal contempt findings in the courtroom of Judge Boasberg, a conservative Republican, a judge. They have been demanding the impeachment of judges who rule against the lawlessness of the Trump administration. There are now...
  • Florida woman arrested after posing as ICE agent to kidnap her ex-boyfriend’s wife

    04/24/2025 4:02:51 PM PDT · by simpson96 · 14 replies
    The Grio ^ | 4/23/2025 | Kay Wicker
    A Florida woman has been arrested and charged after allegedly posing as an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in order to kidnap her ex-boyfriend’s current wife, according to police. On Thursday, April 10, 52-year-old Latrance Battle allegedly went to the location of a hotel chain where the woman worked and approached the woman, claiming to be an ICE agent there to detain her, according to an arrest affidavit the Miami Herald reported. In a statement on the Bay County Sheriff’s Office’s Facebook page, officers said Battle arrived wearing a black shirt with “ICE” printed on the front, a business...
  • MS-13 member sentenced to over 11 years for kidnapping, witness retaliation in Nashville

    04/19/2025 7:51:12 AM PDT · by TigerClaws · 24 replies
    Bayron Wuifredo Santos-Recarte, a 27-year-old Honduran national and member of the notorious MS-13 gang, has been sentenced to 135 months in prison for kidnapping, retaliating against a federal witness, and unlawful possession of a firearm. Court documents revealed that on November 5, 2023, Santos-Recarte and other MS-13 associates kidnapped a former federal witness at gunpoint from a laundromat parking lot in Nashville. The victim had previously testified against MS-13 members in a federal racketeering trial, where he detailed attempts on his life over a drug A recent federal press release reveals that during the kidnapping, the victim was held in...
  • China opening Chinese Police Stations outside its territory (one in NYC, 3 in Canada)

    09/30/2022 3:55:59 PM PDT · by DoodleBob · 36 replies
    Reportika ^ | September 27, 2022 | N/A
    The spread of Chinese overseas police service stations around the world raises concerns among human rights campaigners. The Chinese government is opening illegal police posts all over the world. China claims that these posts are capable of cracking down on global and multinational crimes. These checkpoints have been opened in many countries around the world including developed countries like Canada and Ireland. According to local media reports, Fuzhou has established informal police service stations affiliated with the Public Security Bureau (PSB) across Canada. At least three of these stations are located in the Greater Toronto Area only. Chinese Police Station...
  • TRAITOR BUSTED! Ex-NYPD Sgt. McMahon gets 18 months in prison for spying as a foreign agent for Communist China and stalking U.S. residents.

    04/18/2025 7:30:30 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 26 replies
    X.com ^ | 10:45 AM · Apr 18, 2025 | Libs of TikTok✓@libsoftiktok
    McMahon and his accomplice Zhu Yong conducted surveillance to harass and intimidate Americans on behalf of China
  • Russia's Birth Rates Predicted To Hit Record Low

    04/14/2025 6:06:20 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 13 replies
    Newsweek ^ | Apr 14, 2025 | Isabel van Brugen
    Russia's birth rate has fallen to a historic low, reaching levels not seen since the late 18th to early 19th century, according to a leading Russian demographer. Why It Matters Russia for decades has been experiencing a plunging birth rate and population decline, and this appears to have worsened amid the ongoing invasion of Ukraine, with high casualty rates and men fleeing the country to avoid being conscripted to fight. It is estimated that Russia's population will fall to about 132 million in the next two decades. The United Nations has predicted that in a worst-case scenario, by the start...
  • This bloodthirsty Venezuelan gang has caused havoc in Latin America. Now it’s in Miami

    01/22/2024 5:59:49 PM PST · by Red Badger · 10 replies
    Miami Herald ^ | January 20, 2024 at 4:30 a.m. CST | Antonio Maria Delgado
    A Venezuelan criminal gang that for the past few years has been extending its operations and causing havoc throughout Latin America has made an appearance in South Florida, police say, claiming that at least one of its members was involved in a recent Miami murder. José Luis Sánchez Valera, a 43-year-old retired Venezuelan police officer who lived in Doral, was lured by women into a hotel room in Miami in late November and killed after he was abducted in the parking lot. Yurwin Salazar, 23, a Venezuelan immigrant who lives in South Florida, has been charged with the murder. According...
  • Did Venezuela Invade America In Secret?

    04/08/2025 4:52:23 PM PDT · by CFW · 24 replies
    Emerald Robinson - The Right Way ^ | 4/8/25 | Emerald Robinson
    EXCLUSIVE: I've obtained the leaked security briefing that's been provided to Trump national security officials in recent months regarding the criminal group Tren de Aragua and the Venezuela government. President Trump designated Tren de Aragua as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) on January 20th by Executive order because it's “conducting irregular warfare and undertaking hostile actions” inside the United States. According to the order: “TdA operates in conjunction with Cártel de los Soles, the Nicolas Maduro regime-sponsored, narco-terrorism enterprise based in Venezuela, and commits brutal crimes, including murders, kidnappings, extortions, and human, drug, and weapons trafficking.” It's not a street...
  • Vladimir Putin’s warlord attack dog Ramzan Kadyrov ‘preparing to flee Russia’ as he puts teenage son in charge of police

    04/06/2025 1:37:03 PM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 25 replies
    Sun UK ^ | 4/6/2025 | Will Stewart Harvey Geh
    PUTIN henchman and Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov is "preparing to flee Russia" - as he has put his son in charge of the police. The infamous leader of Chechnya has already made several moves to prepare for his escape - and his efforts have sparked a conflict with Kremlin cronies. The 48-year-old dictator is a vocal supporter of Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin, and has sent tens of thousands of troops to support the bloody war in Ukraine. He has also been accused of violating human rights, including involvement in kidnapping and torture. But relations between Putin and Kadyrov have soured...
  • Ohio polygamist allegedly ordered her husband and 4 lovers to kidnap, torture man for a week in sick revenge plot

    04/02/2025 2:57:38 AM PDT · by Libloather · 45 replies
    NY Post ^ | 4/01/25 | Anna Young
    An Ohio polygamist, her husband and her four lovers were thrown behind bars after they allegedly kidnapped and tortured a 26-year-old man held captive in a hotel room for a week – in a sick revenge scheme hatched by the group’s twisted matriarch. Martina Jones, 28; her husband Michael Esqueda, 28; and boyfriends Aaron Bradshaw, 49; Austin Bradshaw, 28; David Cessna, 26; and Chance Johnston, 27, were arrested on March 22 for terrorizing the victim at a Red Roof Inn in Maumee, according to the Toledo Police Department, WTVG reported. The deranged lovers, who reportedly share multiple children, brutally beat...
  • JD Vance: you’re running out of troops and forcing men into the service to be slaughtered by the dozen | Zelensky: oh really where’d you get that info? 👇🏼

    03/24/2025 2:04:34 PM PDT · by ransomnote · 150 replies
    x.com ^ | Mar 1, 2025 | DC_Draino @DC_Draino
    https://x.com/DC_Draino/status/1895952522889793703Mar 1, 2025 · 15.1M Views
  • 'We're overwhelmed with joy': Boy abducted in Georgia 7 years ago found safe, suspects charged

    03/06/2025 10:26:06 AM PST · by nickcarraway · 19 replies
    WJCL ^ | Mar 6, 2025 | Graham Cawthon
    The disappearance of Abdul Aziz Khan was featured on Netflix's 'Unsolved Mysteries.'A young boy who was reported missing in Georgia several years ago has been found safe roughly 1,400 miles away. On Wednesday, the Douglas County Sheriff's Office in Colorado announced deputies recently found Abdul Aziz Khan after responding to a no trespassing call. Aziz, then 7 years old, was allegedly abducted by his noncustodial mother Rabia Khalid on Nov. 27, 2017 in Atlanta. His disappearance was featured on various programs, including Netflix's 'Unsolved Mysteries.' According to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, a felony warrant for...