By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI was able to get a United Airlines flight to turn around mid-flight from Washington Dulles International Airport to Beijing to arrest a passenger accused of parental kidnapping, the Washington Post reports. The mother, Wenking Liu, was arrested Thursday evening at Dulles International Airport, where the plan returned. Liu was…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Robert Joseph Hibbard wanted so much to talk with the FBI about his ex-wife’s death that he took a hostage at the bureau’s Salt Lake City office and demanded to talk to investigators in September 2012. The 43-year-old pleaded guilty but mentally ill Monday to a kidnapping charge, the Salt Lake Tribune…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is offering a cell phone app for parents in the event that their child ends up missing. WCCO reports that the bureau is encouraging parents to download the Child ID App to expedite the release of information to the public. The app allows parents to send photos and information about…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The U.S. are sending nearly 30 experts to from the FBI and State and Defense departments to help the Nigerian government track down nearly 300 abducted schoolgirls, the Washington Post reports. Among those helping are four FBI officials specialize in recovering kidnap victims, negotiations and preventing future cases. About 276 girls are…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI agents used reasonable force when they fatally shot a kidnapping and murder suspect in the Idaho wilderness last year, the Associated Press reports. Federal and local prosecutors said Wednesday that the two FBI agents should not face charges because they were justified by shooting James DiMaggio, who was suspected of kidnapping…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com If help is requested, FBI agents may be deployed to Nigeria to help search for 276 teenage girls abducted from a school, ABC News reports. The news comes after the leader of Boko Haram, an African Islamist group, pledged to sell the girls as slaves. “God has commanded me to sell them,”…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI wasted no time tracking down a group of men accused of a revenge kidnapping of a North Carolina man. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that the latest suspect to be arrested plans to confess to the violent scheme that allegedly was orchestrated by Kelvin Melton, an inmate serving a life sentence…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com In a daring rescue mission late Wednesday, the FBI saved a man being held in an Atlanta apartment. The News & Observer reports that Frank Arthur Janssen, 63, was rescued unhurt by an elite rescue team. It was unclear this morning whether arrests have been made. Janssen went missing after coming home…
