A Fairmount Heights police officer who is already under federal indictment is now facing new charges of kidnapping and misconduct in office related to a traffic stop in August 2019, the Office of the Maryland State Prosecutor announced Tuesday. Public ...

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Prosecutors say a California man who ordered a Lyft driver at gunpoint to make a trip from Maryland to a Washington, D.C., apartment has been found guilty.

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LOTHIAN — A 12-year-old and a 14-year-old boy have been accused of abducting two young children from a playground in Anne Arundel County and tying them up in a nearby barn. County police say the suspects are brothers and have ...

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WASHINGTON — A day after charges were announced in the 40-year-old kidnapping and slayings of two sisters from Maryland, investigators are turning their attention to the suspect’s uncle and others they say were involved in the crime and subsequent cover-up. ...

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Rabbi Mendel Epstein, who is accused of employing a kidnap team to force unwilling Jewish husbands to grant their wives a religious divorce, or 'get,' faces charges of conspiracy to commit kidnapping and attempted kidnapping.

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Prosecutors allege Epstein's team would use brutal methods, including martial arts beatings, handcuffs and electric cattle prods, to torture the man into granting the divorce.

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Appellant contends the evidence was insufficient to sustain the convictions of either rape or kidnapping and that the circuit court abused its discretion in failing to give a modified Allen charge to the jury.

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The $100,000 reward for information about perpetrator remains even as the trail has gone cold.

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court seemed unsure Wednesday on whether it should order a new sentencing hearing for a man who confessed to kidnapping, raping and killing a 16-year-old girl in Kentucky. The justices heard arguments over Robert Keith Woodall’s ...

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Cal Ripken Jr. announced a $100,000 reward Thursday for information that helps lead to the capture and conviction of the person who abducted his mother a year ago. Vi Ripken was taken from her Aberdeen home at gunpoint on July ...

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