Kidnapped

A Chinese teenager has been returned to safety after being “cyber kidnapped.” Never heard of “cyber kidnapping”? Well, it’s an early front-runner for the hot new cybercrime trend of 2024.Let’s Eat a Chocolate Xbox ControllerPolice in the tiny community of Riverdale, Utah say that 17-year-old Chinese exchange student Kai Zhuang was the victim of a criminal plot in which online ghouls convinced him to trudge off into the mountains and stay there while they proceeded to extort his family out of tens of thousands of…

Carlethia ‘Carlee’ Russell, a woman who disappeared for two days and was found earlier this month, was not kidnapped, according to her attorney. During a press conference on Monday afternoon, Hoover Police Chief Nick Derzis read a statement from Russell’s attorney Emory Anthony, which stated the 25-year-old had not been abducted as she and her family previously claimed. “My client has given me permission to make the following statement on her behalf. There was no kidnapping on Thursday, July 13, 2023. My…

Tuffy, the immature red-tailed hawk who was “adopted” by a family of bald eagles and studied closely by a group of astonished Bay Area birders, has been found dead.The fledgling raptor’s body was found on the ground Wednesday morning, following two days of increasing concern over the animal’s health.The cause of death was not immediately known but was most likely starvation, said Doug Gillard, a professor of anatomy and physiology at Life Chiropractic College West in Hayward. Gillard found the body Wednesday morning and…

An Uber passenger has been charged with murder for shooting and killing her driver in El Paso, Texas. Phoebe D. Copas, 48, allegedly shot her driver, Daniel Piedra Garcia, 52, several times in the head, while in the backseat of his Nissan Maxima, according to a City of El Paso news release.Is Google's New $1,800 Pixel Phone Worth It? | Gizmodo Review Copas claimed she thought Garcia was kidnapping her and taking her outside the U.S. after seeing a traffic sign for Juarez, Mexico, but an initial investigation conducted by…

Cannes is this year becoming a counterblast to ageism. Italian director Marco Bellocchio, at the age of 83 – and almost 60 years after he first came to prominence with his 1965 movie Fists in the Pocket – has created a gripping, heartbreaking true-political crime story from the pages of history. It is a full-tilt melodrama with the passionate vehemence of Victor Hugo or Charles Dickens, which lays bare an ugly formative episode of Europe’s Catholic church: an affair of antisemitism and child abuse.It is based on the true…

An explosive new lawsuit alleges Twitter acted as a member of a “Saudi criminal enterprise” when a handful of its former employees sent names and other data to the Saudi Arabian government revealing the identities of political dissidents. Saudi agents allegedly used that data to kidnap and torture at least one dissident and to enlarge the kingdom’s international surveillance network. Defendants in the case say security failures at Twitter let the paid informants to obtain company secrets, endangering dissidents’ lives.…

When the truck with North Carolina plates crossed the border from Brownsville, Texas, to Matamoros, Mexico, on Friday, the so-called falcons in charge of monitoring the border area notified their bosses of the presence of four Americans.The gunmen, who have not been identified or linked to any of the cartels operating in the area, opened fire on the car. In the fusillade, a 33-year-old Mexican woman who was more than a block away was killed by a stray bullet. Immediately afterward the occupants of the vehicle were…

MEXICO CITY —  Two of four U.S. citizens kidnapped at gunpoint last week in northern Mexico were found dead Tuesday, Mexican authorities said, while two others were freed and transported to the United States in a dramatic rescue operation that capped off a days-long manhunt.The Americans were located Tuesday morning in a small wooden house in a field outside the violent border city of Matamoros, said Irving Barrios Mojica, the attorney general of Tamaulipas state. Mexican authorities detained one suspect, identified only…

Kanye West & Gigi Hadid’s Online Feud Continues, Rapper Calls Her A ‘Privileged Karen & Zombie’ ( Photo Credit – Instagram; Facebook ) Kanye West never misses an opportunity to make headlines with his controversial remarks and statements on community and people. The rapper is currently in an ongoing feud with Victoria’s Secret model Gigi Hadid and in his latest TikTok video, he insulted the model yet again. In the video Ye labelled Gigi as a ‘Privileged Karen’ who was born with a silver spoon in her mouth.…

Four members of a Merced family whose abduction was captured on surveillance video have been found dead, authorities confirmed Wednesday night. A farmworker called around 5:30 p.m. to report the bodies, Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke said. Deputies arrived at the scene shortly after, followed by detectives who determined the remains were those of 8-month-old Aroohi Dheri; her mother, Jasleen Kaur, 27; her father, Jasdeep Singh, 36; and her uncle, Amandeep Singh, 39, who were taken at gunpoint Monday from the family…