KIDNAPPING

A man and woman were taken against their will by two gunmen who kicked in their front door, according to San Antonio police. The criminals left behind the couple's five children, police say.

A Von Ormy man was sentenced to more than 18 years in federal prison after being convicted on charges of kidnapping and transporting undocumented people.

A local man says he wants charges against his soon-to-be ex-wife dropped. He says she was forced against her will to leave town and leave their child with a stranger.

San Antonio police are looking for a suspect in connection with two attempted kidnappings on the Southeast Side. The woman in one of the attacks fought back and managed to escape.

Federal court documents say the a man who admitted to purchasing firearms that he knew would be going from the U.S. to a Mexican drug cartel was arrested in Texas after the discovery that one of the weapons was linked to the deadly kidnapping of four Americans in the border city of Matamoros.

The San Antonio Division of the FBI created a new Digital Media Tip Line to help them identify the person or people responsible for the murders and kidnapping of a group of U.S. citizens who visited Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, on March 3.

A former Bexar County Sheriff’s deputy fired in 2020 amid accusations that he illegally strip searched women has died while awaiting trial for kidnapping.

Myrajah Deshjonae Rankin, 19, is charged with aggravated kidnapping and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.

A 35-year-old man was arrested and charged in a kidnapping case after deputies rescued a 15-year-old girl he had taken at gunpoint, according to Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar.

A woman who was arrested in San Antonio this week for allegedly trying to kidnap a child at a West Side Walmart store is the same woman convicted a decade ago after admitting that she faked a cancer diagnosis to scam people out of thousands of dollars to pay for her dream wedding and honeymoon, according to court records.

Jessica Vega, 35, is charged with attempted kidnapping, a state felony.

Erik Gonzales-Lopez, 18, Froilan Guzman-Velasquez, 30, Randy Lopez-Benitez, 23, and Hector Manue Lopez-Najera, 23, are charged with aggravated kidnapping.

A 50-year-old man is being charged with aggravated kidnapping after he allegedly lured a 3-year-old girl out of her apartment with a cat.

A group of former leaders of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, say the guerrilla organization was responsible for war crimes, including the kidnapping of thousands of civilians for ransom and also holding politicians as hostages for several years in the hopes of exchanging them for imprisoned rebels.

Snow College student Madelyn Allen is home after she disappeared for nearly a week, following a meeting with a man she met online.

The Kerr County Sheriff's Office arrested a man accused of kidnapping and assaulting a woman.

A Haitian doctor visiting San Antonio hopes the latest violent kidnapping of 17 missionaries raises more awareness about the dire help that is needed in Haiti.

James Barnett, 24, is charged with aggravated kidnapping.

UNIVERSAL CITY – A man has been arrested after a brutal kidnapping at an apartment complex in Universal City left a teen traumatized and neighbors too afraid to speak. The incident happened at The Colony apartment complex, located in the 300 block of Kitty Hawk Road, around 4 p.m., Feb. 25. After taking the teen to the upstairs unit, police said the suspect took a pair of pants to restrain him and robbed him of his belongings. Before freeing the teen, officials said the suspect also went through the teen’s pockets and took his apartment keys. RELATED: Woman arrested at North Side hotel, charged with aggravated kidnapping, SA police say

SAN ANTONIO – San Antonio police officers are investigating a possible kidnapping that allegedly happened overnight on the Southwest Side. Officers responded around 12:30 a.m. Friday to the 5900 block of Fairgreen Street for a report of a missing person. A person told officers that a 28-year-old woman was missing from the location. Police said the possible suspect, or suspects, communicated with the person who made the report. Officers are investigating whether the 28-year-old woman, who has not been identified, was taken against her will.

SAN ANTONIO – A 16-year-old San Antonio girl who had been missing since late May has been found safe in Washington state and a man suspected in her disappearance has been arrested. According to the Moses Lake Police Department, Alexandra “Brianna" Martinez was found Tuesday morning and has been reunited with her parents. SAPD asks for public’s help in finding missing San Antonio teenagerMoses Lake police officials said they arrested Andres Hernandez, 28, who was wanted on a kidnapping warrant out of San Antonio. Courtesy: Moses Lake Police Department (KSAT)Moses Lake police officials said they arrested Andres Hernandez, 28, who was wanted on a kidnapping warrant out of San Antonio. Police had gotten a tip that Hernandez and the teen were in Grant County, Washington, last week.