FBI Frantically Searching for Man Who Was Kidnapped, Held for $2M Ransom
The FBI is frantically searching for a man who was kidnapped in California last month and held by captors for a $2 million ransom.
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FBI Helped Facilitate Ransom Exchange Between Americans, al Qaeda
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI helped facilitate ransom payments to al Qaeda from the family of Warren Weinstein, an American who was kidnapped at gunpoint and held hostage for four years before being killed in a U.S. drone strike, CNN reports. “Over the three and a half year period of Warren’s captivity, the…
FBI Investigates String of Fake Ransom Calls Targeting Doctors with Daughters
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is joining Reno Police to investigate a string of fake ransom calls targeting doctors with daughters. KTVN reports that someone has been calling doctors in the area, saying their daughter has been kidnapped and will be mutilated or killed if ransom wasn’t paid. “That was the worst experience of…
Justice Department Says It Has Mastermind in Prolific Cyber Attacks That Robbed Consumers, Businesses
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Justice Department boasted Monday that it captured one of the most prolific cyber criminals in the world in the continuing effort to crack down on the evolving cybercrime threat, the Associated Press reports. Federal officials said 30-year-old Evgeniy Bogachev of Russia was the ringleader of a band of backers who infected…
FBI Reports New Scheme in Texas in Which Callers Are Told Loved One Was Kidnapped
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Authorities are dealing with a sick new scheme in Texas called “virtual kidnapping.” Victims get a call, usually in the middle of the night, from someone who says they’ve kidnapped a loved one and wants ransom money wired immediately, KSAT.com reports. The callers usually doesn’t have any contact with the person they…
Dec. 8, 1963: A Look Back at Infamous Kidnapping of Frank Sinatra Jr.
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Just days after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, a group of amateur criminals plotted to kidnap Frank Sinatra Jr. in hopes of landing a big ransom, the FBI posted. Two 23-year-old former high school classmates from Los Angels kidnapped the son of the world’s most famous singer at the time. Sinatra…
Home Depot Worker Charged on Accusations of Planting Bomb in Store for Ransom Money
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Home Depot worker has been arrested for threatening to detonate bombs inside the stores unless he received $2 million in ransom money, the New York Daily News reports. Daniel Patrick Sheehan, 50, threatened to shut down all Long Island stores on Black Friday by detonating three pipe bombs inside Home Depots,…