Parental Kidnapping News Today

Iron County Sheriff Jeff Burkett resigned Wednesday, just before the start of a civil trial to remove him from office over accusations he and two deputies helped a man in a parental kidnapping plot.

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Clarissa Gardette wanted in Arapahoe County on a child custody violation is arrested in Houston, suspect Howard Myles and four children remain at large.

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Los Angeles police are searching for a boy they believe may be a victim of a parental abduction in Hollywood.

A rural Missouri sheriff and two deputies are jailed and facing charges accusing them of helping a man in a parental kidnapping plot. Officers with the Missouri State Highway Patrol on Thursday arrested Iron County Sheriff Jeff Burkett, deputies Matthew Cozad and Chase Bresnahan, and the father of the child, Donald Gaston. Iron County has about 9,500 residents and sits 100 miles (161 kilometers) southwest of St. Louis.

In Oertwich v. Traditional Village of Togiak, 2022 WL 951272 (9th Cir. 2022), Oertwich, a non-Native, had lived in Togiak, an Alaskan Native Village (Tribe), for over thirty years and operated the Airport Inn there.

A West Virginia mother is charged with felony concealment of a child. The court ordered her to return the girl to her father, but both remain missing.