Columbus: A man accused of holding three women captive in his run-down home in Cleveland for a decade and fathering a child with one of them has been indicted on 329 charges including murder, kidnapping and rape, prosecutors said.
A Cuyahoga County grand jury returned the indictment on Friday against Ariel Castro, a former school bus driver fired last fall.
Castro, 52, is accused of kidnapping Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight and holding them captive along with a 6-year-old girl he fathered with Berry.
The grand jury charged Castro with two counts of aggravated murder related to one act, saying he purposely caused the unlawful termination of one of the women's pregnancies. Castro also was indicted on 139 counts of rape, 177 counts of kidnapping, seven counts of gross sexual imposition, three counts of felonious assault and one count of possession of criminal tools....
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07:02 AM, Jun 08, 2013
New Delhi: A 30-year-old man committed suicide by consuming poison in the custody of Uttar Pradesh Police, a Delhi Police officer said on Wednesday. Rinku, a resident of Aligarh, was arrested on Tuesday from Delhi's Khajoori Khas area by a joint team of Delhi Police and UP Police for eloping with a 14-year-old girl, who also belongs to Aligarh. "After Rinku's arrest, he was handed over to UP Police. On...
02:26 AM, Jun 06, 2013
Noida: Five men, who had abducted two BBA students of Amity for ransom, have been sent to police custody. A District and Sessions court on Monday granted the custody of the five men to the police. While one of the accused had surrendered at the court yesterday, the four others were earlier arrested by Uttar Pradesh special task force and Noida Police. The five men had kidnapped the students on...
10:55 PM, May 21, 2013
Lahore: AAwais Sheikh, the lawyer of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh who died after a murderous assault on him inside Lahore's Kot Lakhpat Jail, was allegedly abducted along with his son on Thursday morning in Pakistan and freed after a few hours in captivity. A few hours after the abduction, Sheikd told some media persons that he and his son had been freed. Sheikh had claimed a threat to his life...
01:08 PM, May 16, 2013
Cleveland: Michelle Knight, freed earlier this week as the longest held of four captives in a dungeon-like Cleveland house, was discharged from the hospital on Friday and went into seclusion. Two other women held with Knight - Amanda Berry, 27, and Gina DeJesus, 23, along with a 6-year-old girl - left the hospital earlier this week and have been reunited with their families. Knight, 32, who is estranged from some...
06:41 AM, May 11, 2013
The three young women imprisoned for around a decade in a white two-story house in Ohio are going to need support and, most of all, privacy as they re-integrate into society, survivors of other long-term kidnapping ordeals said on Tuesday. Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight, who went missing in separate incidents about a decade ago, were found alive on Monday in a home in the same blue-collar Cleveland...
06:42 AM, May 08, 2013
Gurgaon: A 23-year-old domestic help and her husband were arrested on Tuesday for allegedly kidnapping her employer's four-year-old son for ransom. Pooja was employed at the house in Sector 48 here just five days ago through a consultant agency, Gurgaon Police Commissioner Alok Mittal told reporters. On Tuesday afternoon, Pooja called her husband Devi Lal at the employer's house on some pretext, he said. The couple then overcame the mother...
11:08 PM, Apr 23, 2013
The Managing Director of a private energy firm, who was abducted on Friday, has been rescued by the Noida Police. Police are now on the lookout for a garment showroom owner to probe his role in the kidnapping. ...
03:40 PM, Mar 17, 2013
Five persons were arrested for allegedly kidnapping a 10-year-old boy from an affluent family in Vile Parle east on Friday afternoon and demanding a ransom of Rs one crore from his parents, police said. Vile Parle police said the kidnapping took place at around 2:30 PM outside the victim's residence at M Padma building, Paranjape scheme no 3 in Vile Parle East. ...
01:40 AM, Mar 16, 2013
Two youths were on Monday arrested for allegedly abducting and killing an acquaintance they made on social networking website Facebook for ransom. The accused identified as Yudhveer Singh and Jitendra Singh, both college students, became 'friends' with another local Pushpendra Singh through the site some time back. ...
08:33 PM, Mar 11, 2013
The fourth accused in murder of two minor siblings was arrested, police said Wednesday. "We arrested fourth accused Abhishek, 25, from Mandawali in east Delhi Tuesday night," said a police officer. ...
11:22 PM, Mar 06, 2013
In what is fast turning out to be a cleverly planned crime, police on Sunday revealed that the minor siblings, whose bodies were found near a railway track in Pragati Maidan in Delhi, were murdered on the same day of their kidnapping by the accused, one of them their maternal uncle. The maternal uncle, Amit Singh, lived in the same area as the children and he, along with other two...
03:15 PM, Mar 03, 2013
Police have arrested three people in the abduction-cum-murder of two minor siblings, whose bodies were found near a railway track in Pragati Maidan in central Delhi on Saturday. Those arrested include a distant relative of the victims, and he is also the main accused in the case. ...
01:30 PM, Mar 03, 2013
Three people were detained in the abduction-cum-murder of two minor siblings in Delhi on Sunday. The detainees include one distant relative of the children, whose decomposed bodies were found near a railway track in Pragati Maidan in central Delhi on Saturday. ...
10:16 AM, Mar 03, 2013
A 22-year-old girl in Hyderabad survived a kidnap attempt by using pepper spray when she was returning home on Tuesday night. Reportedly the auto driver and his friend took a detour instead of the usual route. ...
12:56 PM, Feb 21, 2013
Two hardcore Maoists, including a woman, who were allegedly involved in the abduction of IAS officer R Vineel Krishna in 2011, have been arrested in Odisha's Malkangiri district, police said on February 15. ...
01:40 PM, Feb 15, 2013
Fresh summons were on Friday issued by a fast-track court against Congress MP Mahabal Mishra and his family members for their alleged role in the kidnapping and rape of a minor girl in 2006, after he they failed to appear before it. The fast-track court, set up to try cases of sexual offences against women, directed Mishra, his wife Urmila, daughter Kiran and brother Hira Mishra to "positively" appear before...
12:58 PM, Feb 08, 2013
An accused in a kidnapping case was on Wednesday rescued by his associates from a running train while he was being taken to Bilaspur. ...
01:47 AM, Feb 07, 2013
A group of miscreants allegedly molested and tried to abduct a 23-year-old girl from a lonely stretch in Guwahati Saturday night, police said. The girl was returning from her office at Bamunimaidam locality here around 8.30 pm when she was accosted by the youths on a deserted road, they said. ...
08:39 PM, Dec 30, 2012
Faridkot: The minor girl, who was allegedly abducted from Faridkot at gunpoint and later found in Goa with her kidnapper, on Tuesday said some police officers had threatened her not to speak against the accused in the case. At a rally organised by Joint Action Committee, formed to take up her cause, her advocates read out a statement in which she said some police officers had threatened her that her...
08:22 PM, Nov 27, 2012
