The Justice Department’s deal with the company, Lafarge, is one of the largest penalties a private corporation has paid for providing material support to a terrorist organization. Source: New York Times
Posts published in “Kidnapping and Hostages”
Man With Loaded Assault Rifle Arrested Outside Iranian Writer’s Home
By Gotham Rex on July 31, 2022
Masih Alinejad, a journalist who lives in Brooklyn, was the target of an international kidnapping plot last year, according to a federal indictment and the writer. Source: New York Times
Man Charged in Kidnapping of Bloomberg’s Housekeeper From Colorado Ranch
By Gotham Rex on February 5, 2022
The man was accused of kidnapping an employee of Mr. Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor, and asking for the whereabouts of his daughters. Source: New York Times
Serial Killer Gets 160 Years After Victim’s Sister and Friends Help Solve Case
By Gotham Rex on October 9, 2021
Khalil Wheeler-Weaver, 25, a former security guard from Orange, N.J., was sentenced for murdering three women and kidnapping and attempting to murder a fourth. Source: New York Times
U.S. Charges Ex-Taliban Commander in Killing of 3 Soldiers in ’08 Attack
By Gotham Rex on October 7, 2021
The man, Haji Najibullah, was charged last year with kidnapping an American journalist and two Afghan nationals months after the deadly assault. Source: New York Times
A Lawyer’s Deathbed Confession About a Sensational 1975 Kidnapping
By Gotham Rex on August 12, 2021
Samuel Bronfman, heir to the Seagram fortune, was abducted by two men who confessed to the crime. But then their story evolved wildly, and the jury believed it. Was it all a lie? Source: New York Times
Rodney Alcala, the ‘Dating Game’ Serial Killer, Dies
By Gotham Rex on July 24, 2021
A longhaired photographer who lured women by offering to take their picture, Mr. Alcala, 77, had been convicted of five murders in Orange County, Calif., and two in New York, all in the 1970s. Source: New York Times
Iranian Operatives Charged in Plot to Kidnap a Brooklyn Author
By Gotham Rex on July 13, 2021
Masih Alinejad spoke critically of her native country’s autocracy. Now an Iranian intelligence official and three others have been indicted in New York. Source: New York Times
Harvey Schlossberg, Cop With a Ph.D. in Defusing a Crisis, Dies at 85
By Gotham Rex on May 27, 2021
A psychologist who had worn the blue, he coached thousands of New York City police officers in hostage negotiations, creating a model for law enforcement. Source: New York Times
Missing Fort Drum Soldier Is Found Dead in New Jersey
By Gotham Rex on December 20, 2020
Cpl. Hayden Allen Harris’s body was found in a remote part of Sussex County, N.J. A fellow soldier was in custody and was expected to be charged in connection with his death, the authorities said. Source: New York Times
New York Grandparents Are Kidnapped and Taken to Canada
By Gotham Rex on October 7, 2020
Their captors demanded the return of cocaine worth $3.5 million. They were freed after the authorities used cellphone data to track them to a house in Quebec. Source: New York Times