Police are searching for a man who was captured on surveillance video brutally beating and abducting a woman outside an LIRR station last weekend. In the video below, you can see the man punch the victim in the stomach after she exited a train at the LIRR's Ronkonkoma Station on Sunday, March 4, at approximately 7:40 a.m.—and then he proceeds to harass and physically hurt the woman for several minutes around the station before throwing her in the back of his car. more ›

The long sad story of Carlina White, who was kidnapped from Harlem Hospital in 1987 and then solved her own case last year, is coming to a close. Ann Pettway, the woman who raised White as Nedra Nance, is expected to plead guilty to kidnapping charges in court today. Pettway initially pleaded not guilty last February. more ›

A Manhattan tattoo artist claims that his ex-girlfriend has kidnapped his beloved dog—and now he's been forced to sue to try to get his "son" back. Craig Dershowitz says that ex-girlfriend Sarah Brega "took unilateral control" of his puggle Knuckles, whisking him away to California after their breakup. "You say it is an extraordinary step but I think most pet owners would agree with me. Knuckles is my son, my heart—you would fight just as hard to protect your own children." more ›

A deaf woman was allegedly abducted in Williamsburg early Monday morning, and two people have been arrested and charged with attempting to prostitute her. Steven Benoit, 25, and Jasmine Wilkins, 19, were arrested for allegedly kidnapping the 28-year-old woman, who hasn't been identified. “They told her to be a prostitute, and she wanted no part of it. They were punching her in the face and pulling her hair," the victim's grandmother, Grace Schenk, told the Post. more ›

The woman who kidnapped her eight children from foster care last week, sparking a NYPD manhunt, said that she had her reasons. Shanel Nadal, who was arrested on Monday night in Pennsylvania, leveled a damning accusation, "Any mother who’s going through this—do what you got to do to protect your kids. I love y’all so much. You know what mommy doing. Mommy did this for y’all," and said, "Make sure you don’t abuse them no more," later explaining that "foster care" was abusing them "and I’m tired of it." more ›

A week after being kidnapped from a children's service agency, eight siblings—seven boys named Nephra Payne and a baby girl named Nefertiti Payne—were found in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania yesterday. The children had been taken by their biological parents, Shanel Nadal and Nephra Payne, during Nadal's supervised visit with the kids. A tip led the NYPD to Pennsylvania. more ›

The FBI is now involved in the search for the seven brothers and one sister who were abducted by their parents during a supervised visit at a Queens children's agency earlier this week. The children, ages 11 months to 11 years, had been split up between three homes, and their mother Shanel Nadal allegedly texted one of the foster mothers, "I cannot live without my children. I cannot breathe without my children." more ›

If you subscribed to NotifyNYC, you recently received this alert: "The NY State Dep of Criminal Justice Services has issued a Missing Child Alert for 8 children, all named Nephra Payne ages 11 months to 11 years. Last seen near 112th Street in Forest Hills Queens at 5 PM on 9/19/11." The NYPD says that mother Shanel Nadal took the children during an authorized visit at a child agency. Also, the children are all named after their father, Nephra Payne. more ›

A kidnapping drama unfolded on Long Island earlier this weekend when Gloria Suarez, a housekeeper, who was so upset with being fired that kidnapped the baby of her employer. Suarez was fired on Monday by Rabbi Yitzchok Hayempour, and then, on Wednesday, allegedly tried to take his five-month-old daughter, Esther, and go to Uruguay. When police caught up with her, she said the Hayempours, who have 11 children, have "so many children that they just don't have time for [the baby]." more ›

The long, sad, story of Carlina White and her kidnapper Ann Pettway has added another twist: Pettway's defense now says White will testify on behalf of her fake mom in court. Pettway previously pleaded not guilty to taking White from Harlem Hospital in 1987 when the girl was 20-days-old. White is expected to ask for leniency if Pettway is convicted, as she faces up to life in prison for the alleged baby-snatching. more ›

After being lured from her Bronx home by a sexual predator seven months ago, an 11-year-old has returned home, and told the Daily News about how her kidnappers pimped her out to men in their Lower East Side apartment. The girl managed to call her grandmother, who told her to run from the Delancey Street apartment while her captors slept. She was eventually found by cops, and is undergoing treatment at a Westchester clinic. She said of her captors, "I want them to go through pain 24 hours a day. I want someone to make them do stuff the way they made me do stuff...I want them to go through what I went through. I think about nothing but anger." more ›

Aliyah Austin, the 16-year-old girl who kidnapped her 29-year-old friend's three-year-old daughter after he smacked her for eating his last Hot Pocket on Valentine's Day is going to jail. The baby-snatching transient will be spending 60 days locked up after she pleaded guilty today to a misdemeanor count of endangering a child’s welfare. more ›

Last week Ann Pettway, the woman accused of kidnapping 20-day-old Carlina White from Harlem Hospital in 1987, was indicted on federal charges of kidnapping. Yesterday in court she pleaded not guilty. Though she doesn't deny that she raised White, Pettway's public defender plans to argue that the real "question is whether she was kidnapping her or whether the baby was given to her." Naturally, they'll push the argument that she was given the baby. more ›

Almost a month after she turned herself in Ann Pettway, the woman accused of kidnapping Carlina White from Harlem Hospital in August 1987, was indicted yesterday on federal charges of kidnapping. Court papers indicate that Pettway kidnapped White as a way to impress her boyfriend after a series of miscarriages. She is expected to enter a plea on February 24. If convicted she faces up to life in prison. Carlina, meanwhile, was last seen in the news being guilted by her birth mother via tabloid. more ›

There are some things, like the Spanish Inquisition, you just don't expect. Like, if we ate your last Hot Pocket on Valentine's Day, we wouldn't expect you to hit us (hard). And if we hit you for eating said last Hot Pocket on Valentine's Day, we wouldn't expect you to kidnap our three-year-old daughter in retaliation. And yet both of those things happened this week on Staten Island. more ›

According to court papers Ann Pettway confessed yesterday to kidnapping Carlina White and raising her as her own. According to FBI agent Maria Johnson's complaint Pettway expressed guilt for the kidnapping, and explained that she took the baby from Harlem Hospital after a series of miscarriages had led her to believe she would never have children of her own. Her arraignment is later this afternoon and her lawyer is not expected to request bail. more ›

After turning herself in yesterday 44-year-old Ann Pettway—the woman accused of kidnapping Carlina White 23 years ago—is heading to Manhattan Federal court today where she is expected to finally face federal charges for the case. Though a manhunt started Saturday for Pettway after she was spotted in a pawn shop, Pettway actually ended up turned herself into the feds after seeing herself on television. more ›

The woman who is accused of kidnapping a baby 23 years ago and raising her as her own child turned herself in today according to authorities. Ann Pettway has been on the lam ever since "daughter" Carlina White figured out she had been kidnapped from Harlem Hospital. Pettway was spotted in Connecticut yesterday, but was able to escape authorities. more ›

Ann Pettway—the woman who captured Carlina White 23 years ago and raised her as her own child—has been on the lam pretty much since White figured out she had been kidnapped from Harlem Hospital. Police have a warrant out for her arrest in North Carolina, but she may have been recently spotted at a Connecticut pawn shop. more ›

Perhaps you recall how when the Post got ahold of Ann Pettway—the woman who raised kidnapped baby Carlina White as her own child—she told them she was coming North post haste to "straighten all this out?" Would you be surprised to know that she's since dropped gone missing? more ›

The tabloids today have more info (and video) on how baby Carlina White (who grew up as Nejdra Nance) was able to find her parents 23 years after being kidnapped from Harlem Hospital. Nance apparently become suspicious of her "mother" Agnotta Pettway—who allegedly abused both her "daughter" and drugs—when she became pregnant at 16 and wanted her birth certificate in order to file for prenatal care. When Pettway, who apparently has multiple aliases, couldn't help her, Nance got curious and confronted the woman who she noticed didn't really look like her. more ›

A New York Hospital horror story has found a happy ending after 23 years. In August 1987 20-day-old Carlina White's concerned parents took her to Harlem Hospital with a fever of 103° only to have her promptly vanish without a trace. Though the case garnered headlines—it remains the only known hospital kidnapping in New York history—the baby was never recovered and the prime suspect, a black woman in white scrubs who consoled White's mother, was never found. Until now! more ›

And this is why our children will never be in pictures! A New York actress living in Toronto is being charged with kidnapping an Indian infant from a bogus casting call she set up on December 30. Michelle Marie Gopaul allegedly set up the call for a Bollywood-style shoot looking for an infant of Indian descent. When a baby she liked (and its parents) arrived, she asked to take it into another room for something and never returned. The baby turned up at a police station four hours later. more ›

We're going to go ahead and assume that quite a few criminals get their ideas about pulling crimes from movies. But what was the last movie you saw where kidnapping a rich kid for ransom works? Their parents are always in with the FBI, or some other secret gang, and the bad guys are never quietly sent the money like they are asked. But apparently, one gang in Queens hadn't caught up on Rush Hour. more ›

The LI man who accumulated a $46,000 tab at the Penthouse Executive Club has a pretty colorful history of bad debts. James Clooney, 52, was held hostage for four days in November 1994 after he tricked investor and money launderer Richard Spence out of $237,000. more ›

The Long Island couple busted for attempting to fake their own kidnapping wasn't asking for much: just $400 for the trouble. Zifiris "John" Valsamis called Stephanie Benatatos' parents, claiming kidnappers were holding their daughter hostage and wanted $400. Benatatos' mother called 911, and police quickly figured out what was going on. Suffolk County Police Detective Lt. Edward Reilly told the Daily News, "We just continued interviewing and eventually he admitted that this was a hoax." Why the need for money? The couple wanted to buy OxyContin for themselves. more ›

Police believe they have found the body of Martin Caballero, who vanished after dropping his family off at the Taj Mahal casino in Atlantic City. The body, found near Hamilton Township, was discovered by a local farmer. E-ZPass records show Caballero's car had exited the Atlantic City Expressway on Exit 12, and re-entered the same exit about 70 minutes later. Cabellero's car was later found burned in Camden County. The body's identity has not been confirmed yet, but Caballero's neighbor said, "We were hoping they would find him alive." more ›

A man and a woman have been arrested for kidnapping a man in Atlantic City last week, even though the victim has yet to be found. Martin Caballero disappeared after dropping off his family at the Taj Mahal casino last Friday, but never returned after leaving to park his car in the garage. His car was later found torched in Camden County. more ›

The Somali pirate who helped hijack a U.S. container ship and take its captain hostage last year changed his mind and pleaded guilty to piracy under the law of nations and kidnapping. Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse, whom the Post dubs the "baby-faced buccaneer," told a judge, after explaining how he and other fellow pirates (who were killed by Navy snipers), "What we did was wrong. I am very, very sorry for all of this. All of this was about the problems in Somalia." He is expected to serve 28 to 33 years in prison and promised not to fight his deportation back to Somalia when his term ends. more ›