Nearly a year after their son, Robert, was kidnapped from the family business at Lakeland Linder Regional Airport, Pamela and Thomas Wiles think he is still alive and are willing to work with the kidnappers to get him back. ...more

February 28, 2009

Nearly a year after their son, Robert, was kidnapped from the family business at Lakeland Linder Regional Airport, Pamela and Thomas Wiles believe he is still alive and are willing to work with the kidnappers to get him back. ...more

February 26, 2009

Authorities count hundreds of Amber Alert cases across the country as success stories when they start explaining why the media-friendly and politically popular bulletins are so important. ...more

November 21, 2008

It was after he was forced into the back seat of a car at gunpoint Sunday night that kidnapping victim Gregory Longley saw his opportunity. ...more

September 9, 2008

The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office said it is investigating a kidnapping that ended when the victim grabbed a handgun and shoot two of his three abductors. ...more

September 8, 2008

Andrew Hathcox remembered the man carried a yellow backpack and wore a red baseball hat. He wasn't certain, but he thought the guy also wore a bright blue shirt beneath his baseball jacket. ...more

August 7, 2008

TAMPA - Three American hostages rescued from a Colombian leftist group talked today about seeing their families — and tasting freedom — for the first time in 5 1/2 years. ...more

July 7, 2008

A Miami man is being held in a Hillsborough County jail on charges that he kidnapped a businessman for at least $100,000, then fled to Tampa. ...more

June 20, 2008

TAMPA - A Miami man is being held in a Hillsborough County jail on charges that he kidnapped a businessman for at least $100,000, then fled to Tampa. ...more

June 19, 2008

TAMPA – The FBI has added the name of a Lakeland kidnapping victim to its Tampa Most Wanted list, hoping to draw attention to the case. ...more

May 8, 2008