SF News Parents and Grandmother Face Kidnapping, Assault and Other Charges Following Alleged Abduction of Toddler The parents of a two-year-old Oakland girl, as well as her maternal grandmother, have now been charged with kidnapping, assault, and more stemming from an alleged abduction that took place last week.
SF News Woman Grabbed Off Street In Apparent Kidnapping In East Oakland Oakland police put out an alert Thursday seeking the public's help with information about a brazen kidnapping seen on video that occurred on 98th Avenue in East Oakland.
SF News Matthew Muller, Convicted of Denise Huskins Kidnapping, Pleads Guilty to 2009 Home Invasions The man convicted in the infamous Vallejo kidnapping and sexual assault of Denise Huskins has pleaded guilty to two counts of home invasion from six years prior, in Santa Clara County.
SF News Kidnapping and Assault Victim Denise Huskins Helped Law Enforcement Find More Victims of Matthew Muller New revelations about a previously unknown kidnapping for ransom in Contra Costa County allegedly committed by Matthew Muller, the culprit in the 'American Nightmare' kidnapping and assault of a Vallejo woman in 2015, came in part due to that woman's advocacy.
SF News Kidnapped at Age 6 in 1951, Man Finally Reunited With Oakland Family 73 Years Later It's a stunning happy ending to a 73-year-old cold case, as a man who was kidnapped in Oakland when he was six years old was finally reunited with his family once he was 79 years old.
SF News Charges Filed Against Suspected BART Station Kidnapper On Friday, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins announced that charges had been filed in the case of an alleged kidnapping of a 17-year-old girl that took place at a BART station last week.
SF News Day Around the Bay: Teen Found Safe After SF BART Station Kidnapping A 17-year-old girl was reportedly kidnapped from the Powell Street BART station Tuesday night; the Bohemian Club is facing another lawsuit from employees; and the Pelosis have been buying up Nvidia stock.
SF News Another Bay Area Carjacking Involves Child Left In Backseat; Child Found Safe, Suspects Arrested Via 'Find My Phone' Just last month we had an incident in San Francisco in which a car was stolen with a child still in the backseat, and now we have another in Oakland, which happened on Tuesday.
SF News San Jose Woman Sentenced to 13 Years For 'Baby Brandon' Kidnapping; Accomplice Gets Five Years The San Jose woman responsible for last year's dramatic kidnapping of an infant, with the help of a man she was dating and in order to dupe another man she was involved with, has just been sentenced to 13 years and four months.
SF News Sentencing Delayed In Wacky San Jose Kidnapping Case as Suspect Now Claims Her Estranged Husband Made Her Do It A San Jose woman whose apparent web of lies led her to mastermind a kidnapping last spring is now claiming innocence in the case, months after pleading no contest and waiving her right to a trial.
SF News San Jose Kidnapping Tale Grows Cray-Cray-Crazier As Investigators Detail Sordid Tale of Boyfriend-Trapping The real story behind the brazen kidnapping of three-month-old San Jose infant Brandon Cuellar is even nuttier than you might have imagined, and it involves a married woman with multiple boyfriends and a plan to possibly baby-trap one of them without getting pregnant herself.
SF News Abducted Infant Found, Three Suspects In Custody In San Jose After 20-Hour Manhunt A three-month-old boy has been reunited with his family after a frantic search by law enforcement and surveillance video showing his abduction in a carseat on Monday.
SF News Sherri Papini to Plead Guilty In Hoax Kidnapping, Says She's 'Deeply Ashamed' The Northern California woman whom federal investigators found had faked her own 2016 kidnapping has now admitted she did it, will plead guilty, and has issued a public apology.
SF News Third Man Convicted In Infamous NorCal Kidnapping of 26 Schoolchildren Gets Parole A 70-year-old man who's been imprisoned for 45 years for an infamous 1976 kidnapping inspired by the movie 'Dirty Harry' has just been granted parole after 18 tries.
SF News Matthew Muller, Culprit In Denise Huskins' 2015 Kidnapping and Rape, Set to Be Sentenced to 31 More Years Muller's trial in a state rape and robbery case had been delayed in part by his mental health treatment, but on Friday he was set to plead no contest to the charges and receive a sentence on top of his previous federal sentence.
SF News Toddler Found Safe, Woman Arrested Following Bay Area-Wide Amber Alert You may have seen the Amber Alert that went out Sunday for a missing toddler in an SUV. And the little boy was found safe Sunday evening in the same vehicle, still in his car seat, a few miles from where he was abducted.
SF News Sebastopol Woman Arrested For Trying to Snatch Toddlers In San Francisco A 42-year-old Sebastopol woman was arrested Wednesday after a strange and crazed-sounding incident in the Richmond District that likely terrified a caregiver caring for two small children.
SF News Second Suspect Arrested In Carjack-Kidnapping of DoorDash Driver's Kids San Francisco police located and arrested the second suspect in the carjacking and kidnapping of a DoorDash driver's minivan with two small children inside.
SF News Convicted Killer Charged In 32-Year-Old Cold-Case Kidnapping and Murder of 9-Year-Old in the East Bay The disappearance of nine-year-old Michaela Garecht, who was grabbed in a supermarket parking lot in Hayward a few days before Thanksgiving in 1988, made national headlines. And only now have investigators charged a man who was already in prison for another murder.
SF News [Update] 'Gone Girl' Kidnapper Matthew Muller Sentenced To 40 Years The admitted kidnapper in the bizarro March 2015 Vallejo abduction case of Denise Huskins is appearing in court today almost exactly two years later to receive his sentence. Harvard-trained lawyer Matthew Muller, 39,
SF News Missing Vallejo Teen Could Have Been Sold Into Sex Trafficking, Say Police Though there has been no substantial update in the case of missing 15-year-old Pearl Pinson who was last seen in May 2016 getting dragged across a pedestrian bridge in Vallejo by a man
SF News Search For Missing Vallejo Teen Called Off; Sister Insists She Is Still Alive On Friday we heard the upsetting story of a 15-year-old girl last seen looking badly beaten and being dragged by a 19-year-old man she was acquainted with across a pedestrian footbridge in Vallejo.
SF News California Pot Growers Kept 15-Year-Old Girl As Sex Slave According to federal prosecutors two pot growers in Clear Lake, California kept a 15-year-old kidnap victim locked in a metal toolbox, raped her, and forced her to work on their farm. A criminal
SF News 60-Year-Old Woman Convicted Of Stealing Her Granddaughter, Throwing Herself A Baby Shower Grandmother Ericka Gallego of El Monte, California was sentenced to eight years in prison for kidnapping her own four-month-old granddaughter in 2011 and attempting to pass the girl off as her own two-week-old
SF News Authorities Searching For Man Who Sailed Away With Kidnapped Children Aboard Stolen Yacht [Updates] Police from South San Francisco are searching for a man suspected of kidnapping his own two and three-year-old children and fleeing with them aboard a yacht he stole from an Alameda marina earlier
