Police: Melee breaks out during ransom exchange with purported kidnappers in Connecticut

October 12th, 2009 Conn. police: Kidnapping-ransom story was a lieGREENWICH, Conn. — A Connecticut family made up claims that it rescued three immigrant relatives from a kidnapper by showing up with baseball bats at a ransom exchange meeting, according to police reports.

October 3rd, 2009 Militant: 3 aid workers freed in SomaliaMOGADISHU, Somalia — Kidnappers on Saturday released three foreign aid workers they had held in Somalia for more than two months, an Islamic militia commander said. Hizbul Islam commander Sheik Abdullahi Nor said he saw the three former hostages board a small plane Saturday in the southwestern Somali town of Luq.

September 21st, 2009 AGRA - The 14-year-old son of a retired police inspector was kidnapped for ransom of Rs.10 lakh here, police said Monday. Rakesh Mohan was kidnapped Sep 14 when he went to attend his coaching class.

September 11th, 2009 GURGAON - In a dramatic rescue, police from Haryana's Gurgaon, Rohtak and Jhajjar districts were able to free two students within hours of their kidnapping from this city, police said Friday. The kidnappers, two of whom have been arrested by the Gurgaon police, had demanded a ransom of Rs.50 million (Rs.5 crore) from the family of the two to release them, Gurgaon police officials said here.

August 16th, 2009 GHAZIABAD - The Ghaziabad police Sunday arrested three people and with that claimed to have solved the kidnapping case of a city doctor. The police have recovered Rs.16.70 lakh in cash that was paid as ransom.

August 8th, 2009 FBI agent accused in shooting death of PR officerSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Authorities charged an FBI agent with negligent homicide on Friday in the alleged "friendly fire" shooting death of a Puerto Rican policeman during a gunbattle with kidnappers last year. Justice Secretary Antonio Sagardia told reporters that special agent Jared Hewitt is accused of shooting 12-year police veteran Orlando Gonzalez Ortiz during a joint raid to rescue a kidnap victim.

July 30th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Four people, including a former 'Mr. Delhi' title winner, were arrested Thursday for their alleged involvement in the murder of 16-year-old schoolboy Ribhu Chawla, who was abducted for a ransom of Rs.2 million, police said.

July 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A day after a 16-year-old boy was kidnapped from near his school in west Delhi for a ransom of Rs.2 million, police Wednesday found his body in another part of the capital. Ribhu Chawla, student of K.R.

July 12th, 2009 LUCKNOW - The body of a 13-year-old boy, who was kidnapped three days ago from a crowded Kanpur locality, was found on the banks of the Ganga river in the neighbouring Unnao town Sunday, police said. Victim Karan's father Pawan Maheshwari was understood to have already paid a ransom of Rs.2 lakh to the kidnappers and had agreed to shell out Rs.1 lakh more but the kidnappers lynched the boy and dumped the body at a deserted spot in Unnao, about 45 km from here, police source said.

July 9th, 2009 Kidnappers in Sudan seek ransom for 2 aid workersKHARTOUM, Sudan — Sudan is negotiating with the kidnappers of two Darfur aid workers for their safe release, preferably without paying the demanded ransom, Sudanese officials said Thursday. Six gunmen snatched an Irish woman and her Ugandan colleague from their compound in the northern Darfur region of Kutum last week.

July 1st, 2009 LAPD says no officers fired for May Day meleeLOS ANGELES — Police officials in Los Angeles say none of the officers who pummeled demonstrators with batons and fired rubber bullets during a pro-immigration rally will lose their jobs. Police Chief William Bratton had asked for the firing of four officers.

June 13th, 2009 Finnish millionaire's daughter freed by kidnapperHELSINKI — Police say they have captured a kidnapper who won a large ransom by taking the daughter of a millionaire hostage. Until the police announcement late Saturday, the public had not been told that 26-year-old Minna Nurminen had been missing since May 27 and kidnapped.

April 29th, 2009 Canadian woman kidnapped still being heldLAGOS, Nigeria — Security forces in Nigeria arrested a man for taking a Canadian woman hostage this month, but other kidnappers were still believed to be holding her, police said Wednesday. National police spokesman Emmanuel Ojukwu erroneously told The Associated Press earlier that the woman had been freed.

April 20th, 2009 Philippine police rescue hostageMANILA, Philippines — Commandos have rescued a hostage after storming what police said was a kidnapping gang's hide-out in the northern Philippines and killing five suspects. National police chief Jesus Verzosa says the five were identified as members of the notorious Mostrales gang that has been engaged in kidnappings for ransom in Manila and nearby provinces.

March 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - A city court Monday sentenced five men to life imprisonment for kidnapping a businessman for ransom and expressed concern at instances of abduction increasingly acquiring an industry status. The court also imposed a fine of Rs.50,000 each on convicts Amar Misra, Satbir, Ravi, Mukesh and Rajender, after holding them guilty of kidnapping Sukhdayal Malik, a businessman dealing in spare parts, on July 16, 1994.