RUMFORD — A local man sought by police for more than a week on suspicion of kidnapping, robbery and assault was arrested by Maine State Police in Gray on Wednesday. Randall J. Chapman, 37, of 48 Essex Ave. has been wanted since an incident May 19 when he fled over a guardrail toward the Androscoggin […]
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Leonard Pitts: Extremist Islam scared of little girls
There was a method to this madness. Meaning that night more than three weeks ago when a caravan of trucks and buses descended on a boarding school in rural Nigeria and more than 200 schoolgirls were abducted from their beds. As is often the case with acts of terror, this mass kidnapping was accomplished with […]
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N.C. inmate charged in kidnapping of DA’s father
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina inmate described as a high-ranking member of the Bloods street gang faces a federal kidnapping charge after authorities say he used a mobile phone to help orchestrate the abduction of a prosecutor’s father. An arrest warrant was issued Friday for Kelvin Melton, who is serving a life sentence […]
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2 out-of-state men face Maine kidnapping charges
CHELSEA (AP) — Two out-of-state teenagers accused of holding a man against his will are facing kidnapping charges. Maine state police said Friday that 18-year-old Ricardo David Perry, of East Stroudsburg, Pa., and 19-year-old Eugene Charleston, of Bridgeport, Conn., were arrested and were being held without bail at the Kennebec County jail. Lt. David Tripp […]