WASHINGTON - Pressured by increased scrutiny of terrorist money sources and strikes aimed at its financiers, al-Qaida's core organization in Pakistan has turned to kidnapping for ransom to offset dwindling cash reserves, according to U.S. officials and information in files retrieved from Osama bin Laden's compound. Bin Laden's interest in kidnapping as a cash-raiser bolsters accounts that the financial squeeze has staggered al-Qaida, forcing it to search for alternative funding sources. Officials would not detail al-Qaida's role in specific crimes, but the group's affiliates have targeted diplomats, tourists and merchants.
MARTINEZ - Bail was increased to $5 million on Wednesday for an El Monte woman accused of kidnapping her 4-month-old granddaughter from her family's Northern California home as part of a bizarre scheme to pass the infant off as her own newborn. The Contra Costa Sheriff's Office convinced a judge to raise the Ericka Gallego's bail based on an amended complaint in which prosecutors added one count of residential burglary to Gallego's kidnapping charge, according to Contra Costa deputy district attorney Nancy Georgiou. The baby's great-uncle told the Contra Costa Times earlier in the day that family members feared Gallego was a flight risk with the $150,000 bail that was previously set.
A married couple in Northern California pleaded guilty Thursday to kidnapping Jaycee Dugard when she was 11, raping her and confining her in a hidden backyard encampment for 18 years in a plea deal that will spare the victim from having to testify at a trial. Phillip Garrido, 60, and his wife, Nancy, 55, entered their pleas in an El Dorado County courtroom in a case that drew international headlines after Dugard and two daughters she bore with her kidnapper were discovered in August 2009. The Garridos faced 29 charges of kidnapping and sexual assault.
PASADENA - A preliminary hearing for Kevin "Sergeant Mac" McFarland, a boot camp instructor , extortion, false imprisonment and child abuse, will begin at 1:45 p.m. in Pasadena Superior Court. Witnesses for the prosecution will be called in today's preliminary hearing. The defense is likely to counter with its own witness testimony Tuesday.
It begins with darkness and murder. A young woman is brutally stamped to death by a teenager, and the most bitter irony is that she is the wrong woman. Denise Mina usually writes on the dark side, and she has perhaps outdone herself this time in a tragic study of the young and their sometimes cruel parents. A tough yet graceful writer, Ms. Mina specializes in female protagonists such as Detective Inspector Alex Morrow, who doesn't allow the complications of being pregnant with twins get in the way of solving crime. In previous books, Ms. Mina has demonstrated talent for writing about the problems of women who rise to prominence in law enforcement, and she is sensitive in acknowledging that not all the fault is on the part of the men. The End of Wasp Season" is less of a thriller than a...
The Court of Appeals said Tuesday that a Vancouver man isnt guilty of kidnapping a boy he met on an adult phone chat line because the child consented to being driven to the mans home. The appellate court threw out Steven M. Dillons 2009 kidnapping conviction on those grounds.
The state Appellate Division on Tuesday partially reversed the conviction of a Paterson man found guilty of kidnapping and robbing a city cabdriver in 2005. We concluded that the kidnapping conviction cannot stand because the defendant compelled the victim only a short distance after the theft was committed," the Appellate Division said in its decision, while allowing to stand multiple other counts of which defendant Norman Jackson was convicted.
PASADENA - Delays continue in the case of Pasadena-area boot camp operator Kelvin "Sgt. Mac" McFarland, as the pre-trial conference scheduled for Wednesday was delayed until Jan. 25. McFarland was in court Wednesday on charges of kidnapping, child abuse, child endangerment, extortion and unlawful use of a badge stemming from a May 16 incident.
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