Mexico high schoolers take up arms after village kidnappings
By Javier Verdin and Diego Oré ACAPULCO, Mexico (Reuters) – A volunteer police force in rural Mexico that says it has been overwhelmed by local kidnappings has recruited schoolchildren as…
By Javier Verdin and Diego Oré ACAPULCO, Mexico (Reuters) – A volunteer police force in rural Mexico that says it has been overwhelmed by local kidnappings has recruited schoolchildren as…
By Kevin Buckland TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Saturday he was willing to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to try and resolve the…
(Reuters) – At least 389 kidnappings were registered in Haiti in the first three months of this year, rights group CARDH said on Tuesday, marking a three-fold increase from the…
WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice today announced the unsealing of criminal charges against seven leaders of five Haitian gangs, including gang leaders involved…
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that DIANTE FERNANDES and MARK FRANCIS, both of the Bronx, were arrested in connection with…
LEXINGTON, Ky. — A Phoenix man, Rosario Diaz Barraza, 32, was sentenced to 35 years in federal prison, on Tuesday, by U.S. District Court Judge Karen Caldwell, after previously being…
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – After a seven-day jury trial, yesterday, a federal jury convicted Jairo Huertas-Mercado and Erik Pizarro-Mercado for six carjackings, one kidnapping, one kidnapping murder, and related…
LONDON, Ky. — Jake Messer, 39, of Rockholds, Kentucky, was sentenced to Life in federal prison on Tuesday, by United States District Judge Robert E. Wier. On February 10, 2022,…
LONDON, Ky. — George Oscar Messer, 62, of Rockholds, Kentucky, was sentenced to Life Imprisonment on Wednesday, by United States District Judge Robert E. Wier. Messer was convicted by a…
Baltimore, Maryland – A federal grand jury returned an indictment late yesterday charging four Baltimore area men with federal charges for: kidnapping and robbery conspiracies; kidnapping; carjacking; using, carrying, and…
WASHINGTON – Taheed Ebron, 21, and Nathan Coleman, 29, both of Washington, D.C., pleaded guilty today to kidnapping two men at gunpoint over a…
Miami, Florida – A 28-year-old Sunrise, Florida, man has pled guilty to federal carjacking, kidnapping, bank robbery, and firearms offenses. Court filings reveal that from January 1, 2021, through January…
Officials asked U.S. citizens to make plans to leave Haiti because of increased gang violence and kidnappings, the U.S. Embassy in Haiti announced on Wednesday. The embassy warned of widespread…