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Kidnapping of Martha Nieves Ochoa (1981) Battle of Yarumales (1984) Battalion America (1986) Kidnapping of Álvaro Gómez Hurtado (1988) Kidnapping of politicians, industrialists and journalists; 48 Guerrilla takeovers of towns. Intervention of newspapers, radio and television. Attacks on Battalions and Embassies.
The abduction of Carlos Lehder as well as the 1981 kidnapping of the sister of the Ochoas; Martha Ochoa which led to the creation of cartel-funded private armies that were created to fight off guerrillas who were trying to either redistribute their lands to local peasants, kidnap them, or extort the gramaje money that the Revolutionary Armed ...
At the end of 1981 and the beginning of 1982, members of the Medellín Cartel, the Colombian military, the U.S.-based corporation Texas Petroleum, the Colombian legislature, small industrialists, and wealthy cattle ranchers came together in a series of meetings in Puerto Boyacá, and formed a paramilitary organization known as Muerte a Secuestradores ("Death to Kidnappers", MAS) to defend ...
In real life, Marta was actually the sister of the Ochoa brothers, acting as a liaison between Blanco and the Medellin cartel, and her death was not an accident. Rather, Blanco is believed to have ...
Known as the Sheng Siong kidnapping case, 79-year-old Ng Lye Poh, the mother of the founder CEO of popular supermarket chain Sheng Siong, was kidnapped by two men Lee Sze Yong and Heng Chen Boon, who demanded a ransom of S$20 million from her son, and the ransom amount was later brought down to S$2 million after negotiations. After the ransom ...
Shocking footage shows US Marshals aggressively arresting an Arizona woman who they thought skipped out on probation 25 years ago — but they got the wrong person and instead pulled their guns on ...
The 3 perpetrators kidnapped the 17-year-old after a traffic collision and forced them into their vehicle. Over several days, they would ask for ransom through phone calls and videos sent to the victim's parents. Law enforcement was able to track the perpetrators through camera footage and vehicle identification and conducted a raid on ...
A kidnapping suspect in Oregon has been arrested after doorbell camera video captured him grabbing a woman and hauling her to a car. The Hillsboro Police Department received a report early Monday ...