A reward of $100,000 is being offered to anyone with information leading to the location of a woman who was abducted from a residence in Ontario a year ago, say the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP). “Elnaz Hajtamiri has been missing for one year. On Jan. 12, 2022, she went missing from an address at Wasaga…

A 63-year-old woman with dementia who was in a vehicle allegedly stolen while parked at a gas station was found safe nearly 10 hours after an unknown suspect jumped into the driver’s seat and took off with her still in the back, Winnipeg Police said Saturday. Police had issued a Silver Alert for the woman…

Nevada authorities have recovered the body of 18-year-old Naomi Christine Irion on Wednesday after she was abducted from a Walmart parking lot more than two weeks ago, local police said. Irion was last seen in the Walmart parking lot in the city of Fernley in Lyon County, Nevada, on March 12 at approximately 5 a.m. Fernley is approximately…

LOS ANGELES—A 26-year-old man considered and armed dangerous has been arrested after allegedly snatching his 23-month-old daughter from her mother’s home in the Echo Park community of Los Angeles, authorities said Dec. 24. The child was safely recovered. Leonardo Rosales and another man were spotted at an apartment complex on Pico Canyon Road in Stevenson Ranch, where he was…

MELBOURNE—The man charged with abducting a four-year-old girl from an outback campsite in Western Australia was flown 960 km (600 miles) to a maximum security prison in Perth on Friday, the state’s Justice Department said. TV footage showed the 36-year-old man walking shackled and barefoot from a police car to a light plane at an…

Western Australia (WA) police officers have found missing four-year-old Cleo Smith alive and well in a locked house, more than two weeks after disappearing from her family’s tent at the Quobba Blowholes campsite on Australia’s northwest coast. Cleo was discovered at about 1 a.m. on Wednesday, local time, alone in a room in a house…

A notorious Haitian gang accused of abducting 17 missionaries, most of them Americans, demanded $17 million in ransom for the kidnapped individuals’ release, according to multiple reports. Haitian Justice Minister Liszt Quitel said the gang dubbed “400 Mawozo” demands $1 million per person in order to set the missionaries free, the Wall Street Journal reported, which…

PAKISTAN—Pakistani counterterrorism police said Sunday they killed five people involved in the abduction for ransom and subsequent death of a nationalist political party leader. The raid took place overnight in the southwestern city of Pishin, according to the Baluchistan province Counter Terrorism Department. Malik Ubaidullah Kasi, leader of the secular Awami National Party, was abducted…

GUSAU, Nigeria—Hundreds of Nigerian girls abducted last week from a boarding school in the country’s northwest have been released, a state governor said Tuesday, as the West African nation faces a spate of school kidnappings. The girls, ages 10 and up, dressed in light blue hijabs and barefoot, packed into Zamfara state’s Government House conference…

KANO, Nigeria—Unidentified gunmen seized 317 schoolgirls in northwest Nigeria on Friday, police said, the second such kidnapping in little over a week in a region increasingly targeted by militants. School kidnappings, first practiced by jihadist groups Boko Haram and Islamic State West Africa Province, have become endemic around the increasingly lawless north, to the anguish…