A jury on Thursday convicted the man who broke into former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home seeking to hold her hostage and attacked her husband with a hammer of federal charges of attempted kidnapping and assault. The jury deliberated
The FBI added Haitian gang leader Vitel’Homme Innocent to the agency’s “Ten Most Wanted Fugitives” list for his alleged role in kidnapping 16 Americans and the killing of another. A Nov. 7, 2022, federal indictment charged Innocent with conspiracy to commit hostage-taking
A heartbroken mother is “begging” for help to bring her daughter back home after Hamas terrorists paraded her in a disturbing hostage video. Keren Schem, whose daughter Mia is a French and Israeli citizen, pleaded for her and other hotages taken at
An Australian court is ordering a man who staged his own kidnapping to compensate police for the hassle of investigating the fake crime. Paul Iera, 35, messaged his girlfriend on New Year’s Eve 2022 from his own phone, pretending to be a
The Islamic Republic of Iran has generated a massive windfall of up to $15.7 billion for illegally seizing American hostages as part of a ruthless hostage policy that has been fine-tuned since its 1979 revolution, according to new a think tank report. The
A U.S. nurse who was released by Haitian kidnappers last week revealed that a Christian song called “See a Victory” was her rallying cry after she and her young daughter were abducted from a school campus. Alix Dorsainvil and her daughter were
An American nurse and her young daughter who were kidnapped in Haiti last week have been released, according to the woman’s employer, El Roi Haiti. “It is with a heart of gratitude and immense joy that we at El Roi Haiti confirm
Philadelphia Eagles offensive lineman Josh Sills, who was placed on the NFL commissioner’s exempt list Feb. 1, was found not guilty of rape and kidnapping Friday. The NFL notified the Eagles Sills will be taken off the commissioner’s exempt list and can
Kidnapping of American nurse, her daughter in Haiti deals blow to aid efforts in impoverished nation
The kidnapping of an American nurse and her young daughter in Haiti last week has impacted aid efforts in the impoverished nation devastated with ongoing gang violence. Alix Dorsainvil, originally from New Hampshire, was reportedly abducted Thursday from the campus of faith
Chants of “freedom” echoed through the streets outside an aid facility in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, on Monday where just days earlier an American nurse and her daughter were kidnapped by armed men. Hundreds of Haitians marched through the gang-ravaged zone, bursting with