kidnapping

Lafayette, Louisiana was featured on a recent episode of '48 Hours' as Schanda Handley recounted events before and after a violent kidnapping for the first time since the harrowing incident unfolded back in 2017.

To say it has been a rough start to the fall semester on the campus of LSU would be an understatement.

At some point during the chase, he abandoned the vehicle, and the child, and fled on foot. He was found in the Vermilion river.

48-year-old Stacy Levier of Opelousas is now being interviewed by investigators after witnesses told police that he was abducted at gunpoint over the weekend.

An absolutely terrifying abduction attempt was caught on video last week in New Orleans, and authorities are hoping you can help catch the people responsible.

Evan Fontenot of Opelousas now sits in the St. Landry Parish Jail accused of using a handgun to take his ex-girlfriend and her baby on a terrifying ride that could have ended terribly.

An 11-year-old girl was nearly captured at her bus stop in Florida.

37-year-old Michael BJ O'Bryan, Jr. of Abbeville has been arrested after Maurice Police responded to a local business where a woman was alleging to have been kidnapped.

A graphic video showing a special-needs man in Chicago being kidnapped, beaten and tortured has led to the arrest of four people connected with the attack.

Anyone with information can call Lafayette Crime Stoppers at 232-TIPS.

A man in Richmond, Va. did something pretty bone-headed last weekend. What was his act of supreme stupidity, you ask? Well, he decided to fake his own kidnapping.

The attempted kidnapping happened around the 300 block of Manchester Circle around 3:30pm today (8/3).

A 24 year old mother of four is in trouble with the law for filing a false police report concerning a kidnapping that did not happen.

A badly beaten woman who was kidnapped from Tennessee on Saturday was rescued in Slidell, La. after she sent a text message to her sister.

Manning and the father of the two children were scheduled to appear for a custody hearing in Oklahoma tomorrow.

Ackal's office reports that multiple tips were called in from the public about suspect Montana Doice's vehicle.

Benjamin Landry turned himself into police yesterday.

Lafayette Police Corporal Paul Mouton says 41-year-old Steven Myers has been released from the hospital and has been booked into the Lafayette Parish Correctional Center for Attempted 1st Degree Murder and Aggravated Criminal Damage to Property.

A 16-year-old Florida girl is in a Lafayette hospital in critical condition and suffering from multiple stab wounds after a high speed chase that started in Iberville Parish.

The two U.S. Mariners who were taken captive by pirates last month have been released to the FBI.