Armed men snatch wife of Marine officer in Jolo
By Julie S. Alipala
The wife of a Marine officer was abducted in Jolo, Sulu on Saturday morning, the military said Sunday.
The wife of a Marine officer was abducted in Jolo, Sulu on Saturday morning, the military said Sunday.
The man accused of holding three young US women captive for around a decade in a house in Cleveland will plead innocent to charges of rape and kidnapping, one of his lawyers said Wednesday.
Five foreigners who were kidnapped last month when heavily armed pirates stormed their cargo ship off Nigeria’s oil-producing southern coast have been released, the vessel’s German operator said Tuesday.
A man charged with holding three women captive for about a decade had been accused of threatening his neighbors, attacking his common-law wife and committing violations during his career as a school bus driver, according to records released Monday.
Despite causing tremendous trouble to government authorities, Quezon broadcaster Melinda Jennifer Glifonea (not Glefonea as earlier reported) is not being treated as a suspect in a staged kidnapping but is considered as a media person in distress, according to a police official.
The New People’s Army (NPA) are allegedly holding seven policemen escorting four barangay (village) captains who they claimed were out to
buy votes for a congressional candidate in the village of Paquibato, a spokesman for the rebels said Monday.
What was initially reported as a kidnapping of a female broadcaster in Candelaria, Quezon, early Sunday morning turned out to be a hoax cooked up by the supposed victim herself.
The three US women freed after a 10-year ordeal of beatings and rape by their kidnapper said Sunday they will not give any interviews until after the criminal proceedings are completed.
The brothers of the US man charged with kidnapping and raping three women, locking them in his home for a decade, said they had no idea what was happening, in an interview aired in part on Sunday.
Police have tracked down and arrested one of the suspects in the Sunday morning kidnapping of broadcaster Melinda Jennifer “Jenny” Glefonea, reporter and news anchor of the Edge Radio (103.1-FM) based in Candelaria, her co-anchor Mitch Regondola, said in a text message to the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
Five people were killed in separate ambushes in the volatile southern Philippines, police and the military said Sunday, and a radio reporter was kidnapped by armed men on the eve of mid-term elections.
Unemployed US bus driver Ariel Castro was ordered held on an eight-million-dollar bond on Thursday on charges he kidnapped and raped three women and held them in his home for a decade.
The former school bus driver accused of kidnapping and raping three women missing for about a decade will make his first public appearance in court Thursday after emerging as the lone suspect.
