Person reportedly detained over kidnapping of US TV anchor Savannah Guthrie’s mother Nancy Guthrie
The six photographs and three videos posted by FBI Director Kash Patel on his X account show an…
US Roblox kidnapping case: Sisters, 12 and 14, rescued after multi-state search
The sisters then left home again to meet Say. Police inspected the girls’ devices after being tipped off…
More than $3m put into bank accounts of illegal migrant in alleged kiwifruit tax evasion scam, police investigate alleged kidnapping of ‘money mule’
This was one of the NZ Herald’s top stories of 2025. An illegal overstayer working in the kiwifruit…
Rotorua crime cases: Nia Glassie bombshell, sex crimes, childcare kidnapping
More than 17 years after the murder of Rotorua 3-year-old Nia Glassie, one of the men jailed for…
IRD failed to report alleged kidnapping of $3m ‘money mule’ victim to police in ‘textbook example’ of poor information-sharing between agencies
Inland Revenue failed to alert the police about the alleged violent kidnapping of a whistleblower after he threatened…
Auckland couple charged with kidnapping, assault after luring victim with Marketplace car sale
An alleged offender made the victim get into the vehicle to withdraw more money from a Stoddard Rd…
Mongrel Mob associate Rameka Joseph Rangi-Te Rito sentenced for gang kidnapping
Rangi-Te Rito, and at least another eight patched members and associates of the Aotearoa chapter, arrived at the…
Judge spares 17-year-old Kava Peihopa jail over violent Whangārei kidnapping
The Christmas Eve kidnapping On December 24 last year, the victim was travelling north when his phone went…
Blade Herbert sentenced over Whangārei ‘drug deal gone wrong’ that led to kidnapping
Dressed in black clothes and wearing a glove, Herbert began yelling at two victims in the lounge. “Where…
Review finds flaws: Why rapist Frankie Te Uira Edwards was cleared of 2006 Epsom kidnapping
It was the 10th of April 2006 and the brazen attack in the middle of the day came…
Auckland serial rapist Frankie Edwards cleared of kidnapping after Criminal Cases Review Commission investigation
Yet, he pleaded guilty to the April 2006 knifepoint kidnapping, which began outside a badminton hall in Epsom.…
Two Australians charged with supplying firearms to group that kidnapped NZ pilot Phillip Mehrtens
An investigation into the kidnapping by New Zealand and Australian authorities has resulted in a 64-year-old man from…