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Lyft driver kidnapped by man with gun, told to drive to Chicago, Lincoln Police say

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - The Lincoln Police Department is investigating after a Lyft driver said he was kidnapped by a man with a gun and told to drive to Chicago on Saturday. Around 4 p.m., a woman called Lincoln Police asking for a welfare check for her 36-year-old husband, after receiving a strange phone message from him. Officers pinged the man’s phone which showed his cellphone on I-80 near Waverly, but neither deputies with the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office or Nebraska State Patrol troopers were able to find him. LPD...

Person claims they were kidnapped in Lincoln; authorities search for another potential victim

An unidentified person located near the Marne, Iowa, exit of Interstate 80 on Saturday reported being kidnapped at gunpoint and witnessing a second kidnapping. According to the Cass County (Iowa) Sheriff’s Office, an emergency dispatcher received a call at about 5:10 p.m. from someone just south of I-80 near Exit 51 to Marne. An alleged victim reported that they had been kidnapped in Lincoln by a man with a gun and told to drive to Chicago. The driver said the gunman ordered them to take Exit 51, where he pointed...

Person claims they were kidnapped in Lincoln; authorities search for another potential victim

An unidentified person located near the Marne, Iowa, exit of Interstate 80 on Saturday reported being kidnapped at gunpoint and witnessing a second kidnapping. According to the Cass County (Iowa) Sheriff’s Office, an emergency dispatcher received a call at about 5:10 p.m. from someone just south of I-80 near Exit 51 to Marne. An alleged victim reported that they had been kidnapped in Lincoln by a man with a gun and told to drive to Chicago. The driver said the gunman ordered them to take Exit 51, where he pointed...

Person claims they were kidnapped in Lincoln; authorities search for another potential victim

An unidentified person located near the Marne, Iowa, exit of Interstate 80 on Saturday reported being kidnapped at gunpoint and witnessing a second kidnapping. According to the Cass County (Iowa) Sheriff’s Office, an emergency dispatcher received a call at about 5:10 p.m. from someone just south of I-80 near Exit 51 to Marne. An alleged victim reported that they had been kidnapped in Lincoln by a man with a gun and told to drive to Chicago. The driver said the gunman ordered them to take Exit 51, where he pointed...

Person claims they were kidnapped in Lincoln; authorities search for another potential victim

An unidentified person located near the Marne, Iowa, exit of Interstate 80 on Saturday reported being kidnapped at gunpoint and witnessing a second kidnapping. According to the Cass County (Iowa) Sheriff’s Office, an emergency dispatcher received a call at about 5:10 p.m. from someone just south of I-80 near Exit 51 to Marne. An alleged victim reported that they had been kidnapped in Lincoln by a man with a gun and told to drive to Chicago. The driver said the gunman ordered them to take Exit 51, where he pointed...

Person claims they were kidnapped in Lincoln; authorities search for another potential victim

An unidentified person located near the Marne, Iowa, exit of Interstate 80 on Saturday reported being kidnapped at gunpoint and witnessing a second kidnapping. According to the Cass County (Iowa) Sheriff’s Office, an emergency dispatcher received a call at about 5:10 p.m. from someone just south of I-80 near Exit 51 to Marne. An alleged victim reported that they had been kidnapped in Lincoln by a man with a gun and told to drive to Chicago. The driver said the gunman ordered them to take Exit 51, where he pointed...