kidnapping

KENNEWICK (AP) — Authorities say a 69-year-old woman reportedly abducted for ransom in the Tri-Cities has been found dead — two days after police agreed to pay the money and arrested someone they said was involved. The Benton County Sheriff's Office says the body of Sandra Harris was found by a motorist midday Sunday along Coffin Road, two miles east of Interstate 82. The sheriff's office said it'

WALLA WALLA (AP) — A 24-year-old man has pleaded guilty to five felony charges in connection with three cases in Walla Walla last year. The Walla Walla Union-Bulletin reports that Shawn Crump had faced three trials next month before pleading guilty Tuesday to kidnapping, assault, methamphetamine possession and other charges...

SEATTLE (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit alleging that the Seattle Police Department had a duty to monitor a confidential informant who turned violent. In the complaint, Francisco Islas Casillas said he was kidnapped, robbed and assaulted by police informant Jessahel Ortega-Baldis in 2012...

KENNEWICK, Wash. (AP) — Two teenagers have been sentenced to a combined 20 years in prison for abducting one of their great-grandmothers and driving with her in the trunk of her car for about 200 miles before she escaped. The Tri-City Herald reports a 17-year-old boy was sentenced Thursday to 9-1/2 years for his role in kidnapping his great-grandmother...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco police say the case of a woman who jumped out of a Lyft car because she thought she was being kidnapped turned out be a misunderstanding that happened after she couldn't communicate with her hard of hearing driver...

Yakima will join 43 cities across the nation Wednesday afternoon in honoring the lives and memories of 43 college students who went missing in Mexico earlier this year.

A man accused of kidnapping a Yakima woman in Selah last week is behind bars. On Tuesday, the Yakima County Violent Crimes Task Force assisted the Selah Police Department in arresting Christopher M. Tasker II for the kidnapping. Tasker was arrested for 1st degree armed robbery, 1st degree assault and unlawful possession of a firearm...

Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight, all of whom disappeared between 2002 and 2004 in Cleveland, have been found alive, after being kidnapped imprisoned in a house on Cleveland's West Side.