kidnapping

A security guard has been indicted in D.C., on charges of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl he was previously accused of groping.

A jury deliberated about nine hours over two days before declaring Roman Shankaras, 32, not guilty of murder, assault, kidnapping, riot and conspiracy.

Charles Mitchell 33, is believed to have been abducted Monday from the 400 block of Yale Ave., according to Baltimore Police Department

By Lillian Reed

Apr 24, 2019

Enrique Jose Borja Perez Jr., who was arrested by the Westminster Police Department, was held without bond upon arrest, and has a bail review hearing scheduled for 11 a.m. Tuesday, according to electronic court records.

Maryland has no shortage of real stories that are being used in documentaries, TV series and podcasts. Here are some of the top jaw-dropping stories that have been retold for your viewing (or listening) pleasure.

By Brittany Britto

Aug 27, 2018

Tiffany Jones, 29, was abducted Tuesday in South Baltimore. Her friends and family came to a crime scene Wednesday in Brooklyn, where firefighters found her body in a burned building.

By Sarah Meehan

Aug 22, 2018

Police are looking for a  29-year-old woman abducted in South Baltimore on Tuesday afternoon. 

By Christina Tkacik

Aug 22, 2018

An Edgewood man was sentenced Thursday to 64 years in jail for kidnapping a woman he knew and holding her captive for five days in a car trunk while he was on probation, the Harford County State's Attorney's Office said.

By Erika Butler

Aug 3, 2017

Five years after Vi Ripken was abducted from her home, Aberdeen police on Wednesday released a composite sketch of the man they say is responsible for kidnapping her.

By Sean Welsh

Aug 2, 2017

The old man sat on a metal folding chair in his Essex garage. His big right hand reached out to a wooden table, to a faded police autopsy photo lying there.

A self-described former Black Guerrilla Family commander returned to Baltimore from federal witness protection and testified against a man who he said shot him

While he was in the Harford County Circuit Courthouse on a case, Harford County lawyer received a phone call Wednesday morning that his wife had been kidnapped and the caller was demanding money for her return. It turned out to be a scam, Bel Air Police said. The wife was found safe at her work.

By Erika Butler

Apr 12, 2017

For her new memoir, "The Home That Was Our Country," Alia Malek, a Baltimore native, retraced her family's roots to the Ottoman Empire, telling their story in the context of Syria's tumultuous history. She'll be speaking about the book Wednesday at Bird in Hand.

By Christina Tkacik

Mar 10, 2017

The Sheriff's Office handled calls Monday where the caller told the person on the receiving end someone they know, usually a family member, was kidnapped and would only be returned when money was sent to the caller.

A 35-year-old Bel Air woman told police her boyfriend allegedly kidnapped and kept her in the trunk of her car for five days, before she was able to escape and seek help Friday at a Cracker Barrel restaurant off Route 543 in Belcamp, Maryland State Police reported.

No charges will be filed in the shooting death of Korryn Gaines, the Baltimore County State’s Attorney’s office announced Wednesday.

By Alison Knezevich

Sep 21, 2016

Ledell Maxwell Padmore, 39, of Columbia, was sentenced to four consecutive 30-year terms for his involvement in a series of Columbia carjackings and kidnappings last October.

It was night, and Mahmood Khan's family was asleep when the Maryland man opened the Senate torture report. As he read through the pages, he learned what the CIA had done to his little brother Majid during the three years his family had thought he was dead.

By Ian Duncan

Sep 13, 2016

Westminster Police Department officers responded to a call of a kidnapping and allegedly found David John Stultz sexually assaulting a female in the backyard of a house on Pennsylvania Avenue.

This week local law enforcement and public safety agencies gave the unthinkable some thought — sharing data, training and tips in an effort to increase their response to missing child incidents.

Members of 12 organizations throughout Maryland were tasked with finding two teenage girls as part of a training exercise Wednesday.

Last August, a 25-minute police chase touched off across three jurisdictions when patrol officers saw a distressed woman inside a car whose driver fled when they attempted to pull it over. The pursuit was carried live by broadcast networks, and ended dramatically when the vehicle crashed into a Southwest Baltimore home and a detective, clad in an all-white suit, placed the driver under arrest. But the court case for the two men in the vehicle, Robert Bethea and Mark Jackson, concluded a whimper.

Authorities have accused two Maryland roommates of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl.

Former Black Guerrilla Family leader Tavon White, who oversaw a racket at the Baltimore jail and flipped to become the federal government's key witness, returned to a Baltimore courtroom Wednesday to take the stand in a murder trial.

Authorities say Nicole Lovell, the 13-year-old Virginia girl believed to have been abducted and killed by an 18-year-old college student from Maryland, was stabbed to death on Jan. 27 — the day her family discovered her missing from her Blacksburg home.

By Tim Prudente

Feb 2, 2016

One of two Virginia Tech students from Maryland who have been charged in the abduction and killing of a 13-year-old girl told authorities that "the truth can set me free," according to charging documents released Monday.

By Tim Prudente

Feb 1, 2016

A second Maryland teenager has been charged in the abduction and murder of a 13-year-old girl in Blacksburg, Va., officials said Sunday.

By Pamela Wood

Feb 1, 2016

A Virginia Tech student from Columbia has been charged in Virginia with the abduction and murder of a 13-year-old girl who had been missing since last week, Blacksburg police said.

By Ian Duncan

Jan 30, 2016

Every evening as she got ready for bed, Narmin Al Eethawi knew that when sleep came, so would the nightmare. A woman would appear, dressed in black robes, her

A woman who says her ex-boyfriend abducted her has been rescued after Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel employees helped the suspect move his surfboards across the bridge.

A man led police on a 25-minute chase with a woman in the car who police said was abducted before he crashed and was arrested in Southwest Baltimore, police said.

By Colin Campbell

Aug 8, 2015

It wasn't until three months after a drone blasted a suspected al-Qaida compound in Pakistan that America's spies figured out that a captured Rockville contractor was among the dead, the White House acknowledged this week, renewing calls for a change in the government's policy toward hostages.

Parents in the Baltimore area have strong feelings on the "free range" kids movement.

By Julie Scharper

Apr 16, 2015

A Baltimore man was sentenced to 40 years in prison Monday for his role in what prosecutors say is a drug-related home invasion in Columbia last spring.

The U.S. strategy to contain and defeat Boko Haram isn't working.

The high-profile disappearance last year of an 11-year-old Dundalk girl has inspired a new Facebook feature. The most widely used social networking site on Tuesday announced the launch of an Amber Alert system to distribute information about abducted children.

By Alison Knezevich

Jan 13, 2015

A Howard County jury convicted a Baltimore man Monday for his role in a drug-related home invasion and kidnapping scheme in Columbia earlier this year.

The suspect in a Philadelphia abduction case has been transported from Towson to Virginia, Baltimore County police said Friday.

By Alison Knezevich

Nov 7, 2014

A Havre de Grace woman who found a stretched-out key chain ring, candy wrappers and a Herr's potato chip bag in her driveway this week helped investigators track down the suspect in a high-profile Philadelphia abduction case, according to documents filed Thursday in federal court.

By Alison Knezevich

Nov 6, 2014

A 22-year-old woman who was abducted on the street in Philadelphia on Sunday was rescued from her kidnapper in Jessup on Wednesday, police said.

By Colin Campbell

Nov 5, 2014

Inside an empty brick house in East Baltimore this month, city police located a man who had been reported kidnapped. He was zip-tied, bleeding and suffering from numerous injuries from being beaten with a bat, police say.

This episode, "Selina Kyle," wasn¿t so much about the titular antihero as it was setting up the dismal world that she lives in and what she needs to do to survive.

A 69-year-old incarcerated, convicted kidnapper and rapist was indicted Tuesday on charges related to the 1982 death of Laurel resident Stephanie Watson, a legal step that brings the malevolent cold case closer to conclusion.

Two years later, the mysterious kidnapping of one of Aberdeen's most prominent citizens is still a wide-open case.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met Monday with the teenager who allegedly was beaten by Israeli police last week, and Jewish leaders in Baltimore condemned the alleged abduction and killing of his cousin by several Israelis.